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 and eventual 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

• Hawkey or Hawkie (pronounced hawk-ee)^[12][13]
• The Silver Bodgie^[2]
• Little Caesar^[9]

Full name: Paul John Keating

• The Mortician^{[citation needed]}
• The Lizard of Oz, by the British press after he placed his arm around Queen Elizabeth during her 1992 tour of Australia.^[14]
• Paul-Bearer, a play on "pallbearer", in reference to his perceived role in the downturn of the Australian economy.^[15]
• The Undertaker, for the same reason as above.^[16]

Full name: John Winston Howard

• Honest John^[8]
• Little Johnny Howard^[17]
• Mr 18%^[18]
• The little desiccated coconut, used by Paul Keating to describe Howard during a 2007 radio interview.^[19]

Full name: Kevin Michael Rudd

• Kevin07, his campaign slogan for the 2007 federal election.
• K-Rudd or Krudd, a contraction of his name.
• Milky Bar Kid, in his likeness to the Nestlé Milky Bar Kid.
• Rudd the Dud^[20]
• Dr Death, in reference to his role in the cuts to the Queensland public service under the government of Wayne Goss.^[21]

Full name: Julia Eileen Gillard

• Ju-liar, part of a campaign of character assassination led by Alan Jones.^[22]
• J-Gizza, used predominantly by students and young people during her prime ministership.
• The Witch, a misogynistic sobriquet which appeared on a placard at an anti-carbon tax rally infamously attended by Tony Abbott.^[23]

Full name: Anthony John Abbott

• Mad monk^[24]
• Tear-down Tony^[24]
• Onion muncher, in response to a widely-circulated video in which Abbott bit into a raw onion while visiting a produce farm in northern Tasmania.^[25]
• The Gammon Man, predominantly by Indigenous peoples in the Northern Territory. The term is allegedly used to refer to people who are seen as disingenuous, or "pretenders". It was applied to Abbott after he suggested that he would suspend financial assistance to remote Indigenous communities, and in response to his support for the closure of Aboriginal townships in Western Australia.^[26]

Full name: Malcolm Bligh Turnbull

• Mr Harbourside Mansion^[27]
• Turncoat^{[28][29][30][31][32]}
• Trumble or Mr Trumble, owing to a gaffe by Donald Trump's first press secretary, Sean Spicer.^[33]
• Brian Trumbull, another misspelling which appeared in a Reuters article during Turnbull's 2017 visit to the United States.^[34]
• President of Australia, the title given to Turnbull in a White House press statement following a phone call with Donald Trump.^[35]

Full name: Scott John Morrison

• ScoMo^[36][37]
• Scummo, as a further iteration of ScoMo.^{[citation needed]}
• The Liar from the Shire^[38][39]
• Scotty from Marketing became a common nickname due to Morrison's perceived poor response to the 2019 Australian bushfires.^[40][41] It originated in an article on satirical web site The Betoota Advocate during the bushfires.^[42][43] 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.^[44][45][46]

Full name: Anthony Norman Albanese

• Albo^[47][48]
• Airbus Albo, due to his perceived propensity for overseas junketing.^[49][50]
• Each-way Albo, coined prior to his election to portray him as indecisive or unprincipled. See Yes-No Reid.^[51][52]
• AnAl, contracting first and last names in the same manner as "ScoMo", vulgarity ensues.^[53]
• Morrison-lite^[54]
• OverEasy Albanese^[55]

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