List of Prime Ministers of Australia

Following is a list of Prime Ministers of Australia from Federation to the present.[1]

Prime Minister | Dates

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Sir Edmund Barton, PC, GCMG, KC
(Protectionist Party)  | 1 January 1901--24 September 1903
(2 years, 8 months, 24 days)
Alfred Deakin
(Protectionist Party)  | 24 September 1903--27 April 1904
(7 months, 4 days)
John Christian Watson
(Australian Labor Party)  | 27 April 1904--17 August 1904
(3 months, 21 days)
George Houstoun Reid (later Sir George), PC, KC
(Free Trade)  | 18 August 1904--5 July 1905
(10 months, 18 days)
Alfred Deakin
(Protectionist Party)  | 5 July 1905--13 November 1908
(3 years, 4 months, 9 days)
Andrew Fisher
(Australian Labor Party)  | 13 November 1908--2 June 1909
(6 months, 21 days)
Alfred Deakin
(Protectionist Party)  | 2 June 1909--29 April 1910
(10 months, 28 days)
Andrew B. Fisher
(Australian Labor Party)  | 29 April 1910--24 June 1913
(3 years, 1 month, 26 days)
Joseph Cook (later Sir Joseph)
(Liberal Party of Australia)  | 24 June 1913--17 September 1914
(1 year, 2 months, 25 days)
Andrew B. Fisher
(Australian Labor Party)  | 17 September 1914--27 October 1915
(1 year, 1 month, 11 days)
William Morris Hughes
(Australian Labor Party; Nationalist Party from 1917)  | 27 October 1915--9 February 1923
(7 years, 3 months, 14 days)
Stanley Melbourne Bruce, PC, CH, MC
(Nationalist Party)  | 9 February 1923--22 October 1929
(6 years, 8 months, 14 days)
James Henry Scullin, PC
(Australian Labor Party)  | 22 October 1929--6 January 1932
(2 years, 2 months, 16 days)
Joseph Aloysius Lyons, PC, CH
(United Australia Party)  | 6 January 1932--7 April 1939
(7 years, 3 months, 2 days)
Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, PC, GCMG
(Australian Country Party)  | 7 April 1939--26 April 1939
(20 days)
Robert Gordon Menzies, PC, KC
(United Australia Party)  | 26 April 1939--29 August 1941
(2 years, 4 months, 4 days)
Arthur William Fadden (later Sir Arthur)
(Country Party)  | 29 August 1941--7 October 1941
(1 month, 9 days)
John Curtin, PC
(Australian Labor Party)  | 7 October 1941--5 July 1945
(3 years, 8 months, 29 days)
Francis Michael Forde, PC
(Australian Labor Party)  | 6 July 1945--13 July 1945
(8 days)
Joseph Benedict ("Ben") Chifley, PC
(Australian Labor Party)  | 13 July 1945--19 December 1949
(4 years, 5 months, 7 days)
Robert Gordon Menzies (later Sir Robert), PC, KC
(Liberal Party of Australia)  | 19 December 1949--26 January 1966
(16 years, 1 month, 8 days)
Harold Edward Holt, PC, CH
(Liberal Party of Australia)  | 26 January 1966--19 December 1967
(1 year, 10 months, 23 days)
John McEwen (later Sir John), PC
(Country Party)  | 19 December 1967--10 January 1968
(23 days)
John Grey Gorton, PC
(Liberal Party of Australia)  | 10 January 1968--10 March 1971
(3 years, 2 months)
William McMahon (later Sir William), PC, CH
(Liberal Party of Australia)  | 10 March 1971--5 December 1972
(1 year, 8 months, 25 days)
Edward Gough Whitlam, QC
(Australian Labor Party)  | 5 December 1972--11 November 1975
(2 years, 11 months, 7 days)
John Malcolm Fraser, PC, CH
(Liberal Party of Australia)  | 11 November 1975--11 March 1983
(7 years, 4 months)
Robert James Lee Hawke, AC
(Australian Labor Party)  | 11 March 1983--20 December 1991
(8 years, 9 months, 10 days)
Paul John Keating
(Australian Labor Party)  | 20 December 1991--11 March 1996
(4 years, 2 months, 20 days)
John Winston Howard
(Liberal Party of Australia)  | 11 March 1996--3 December 2007
(11 years, 8 months, 22 days)
Kevin Michael Rudd
(Australian Labor Party)  | 3 December 2007--24 June 2010
(2 years, 5 months, 21 days)
Julia Eileen Gillard
(Australian Labor Party)  | 24 June 2010--27 June 2013
(3 years, 0 months, 3 days)
Kevin Michael Rudd
(Australian Labor Party)  | 27 June 2013--18 September 2013
(2 months, 22 days)
Anthony John Abbott
(Liberal Party of Australia)  | 18 September 2013--15 September 2015
(1 year, 11 months, 27 days)
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull
(Liberal Party of Australia)  | 15 September 2015--

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Prime Ministers of Australia