List of nicknames of prime ministers of Australia

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This is a list of nicknames of prime ministers of Australia.

Full name: Edmund Barton

• Toby Tosspot^[1]

Full name: Alfred Deakin

• Affable Alfred^[2]

Full name: John Christian Watson

Full name: George Houston Reid

• Yes-No Reid in reference a long speech where he was unwilling to take a clear position on federation.^[3]

Full name:Andrew Fisher

Full name: Joseph Cook

Full name: William Morris Hughes

• The Little Digger
• The Rat Due to his support for conscription & defection from the Labor Party to the Liberal Party

Full name: Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne

Full name: James Henry Scullin

Full name: Joseph Aloysius Lyons

• Honest Joe

Full name: Earle Christmas Grafton Page

Full name: Robert Gordon Menzies

• Ming the Merciless^[4]
• Pig iron Bob^[5]

Full name: Arthur William Fadden

• Artie

Full name: John Joseph Ambrose Curtin

• Bumble^[6]

Full name: Francis Michael Forde

Full name: Joseph Benedict Chifley

Full name: Harold Edward Holt

Full name: John McEwen

• Black Jack^[7]

Full name: John Grey Gorton

• Jolly John^[8]

Full name: William McMahon

• Billy the Leak^[9]
• Billy Liar^[9]
• Billy Big Ears

Full name: Edward Gough Whitlam

• The Young Brolga^[10]
• Goughie^{[citation needed]}

Full name: John Malcolm Fraser

• The Prefect^[11]

Full name: Robert James Lee Hawke

• The Silver Bodgie^[2]
• Little Caesar^[9]

Full name: Paul John Keating

• The Mortician
• The Lizard of Oz^[12]

Full name: John Winston Howard

• Honest John
• Little Johnnie Howard^[8]
• Mr 18%^[13]

Full name: Kevin Michael Rudd

• Kevin07 his campaign slogan for the 2007 election
• Krudd, a contraction of his name
• Milky Bar Kid in his likeness to Nestlé Milky Bar Kid
• Rudd the Dudd

Full name: Julia Eileen Gillard

• Ju-liar part of a campaign of character assassination led by Alan Jones^[14]

Full name: Anthony John Abbott

• Mad monk^[15]

Full name: Malcolm Bligh Turnbull

• Mr Harbourside Mansion^[16]
• Turncoat^{[17][18][19][20][21]}

Full name: Scott John Morrison

• ScoMo^[22][23]
• Scummo as a further iteration of ScoMo.^{[citation needed]}
• Liar from the Shire^[24][25]
• Scotty from Marketing became a common nickname due to Morrison's perceived poor response to the 2019 Australian bushfires.^[26][27] It originated in an article on satirical web site The Betoota Advocate during the bushfires.^[28][29] The name is still used frequently, and refers to Morrison's previous roles as managing director of Tourism Australia from 2004 to 2006 and as the inaugural Director of the New Zealand Office of Tourism and Sport from 1998 to 2000.^[30][31][32]

Full name: Anthony Norman Albanese

• Albo^[33][34]
• Airbus Albo, due to his perceived propensity for overseas junketing.^[35][36]
• AnAl, contracting first and last names in the same manner as "ScoMo".^[37]
• Morrison-lite ^[38]
• OverEasy Albanese^[39]

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