Australia’s Prime Ministers
Do you know which former prime minister was present at the hanging of Ned Kelly? Or which one used to work as a miner before he was prime minister? Or who the Bulletin nicknamed ‘Tosspot Toby’ because of his love of good food and wine? Read our Prime Facts leaflets to discover these and many more quirky facts about our former prime ministers. The Prime Facts series also includes details about their political careers, their main achievements, their personal lives, their character and their lives after politics. You can also download a fact sheet listing all twenty-six prime ministers.
Edmund Barton, 1901-1903
Alfred Deakin, 1903–04, 1905–08, 1909–10
John Christian Watson, 1904
George Houstoun Reid, 1904–05
Andrew Fisher, 1908–09, 1910–13, 1914–15
Joseph Cook, 1913–14
William Morris Hughes, 1915–23
Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1923–29
James Henry Scullin, 1929–32
Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 1932–39
Earle Christmas Grafton Page, 1939
Robert Gordon Menzies, 1939–41, 1949–66
Arthur William Fadden, 1941
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin, 1941–45
Francis Michael Forde, 1945
Joseph Benedict Chifley, 1945-49
Harold Edward Holt, 1966-67
John McEwen, 1967-68
John Grey Gorton, 1968-71
William McMahon, 1971-72
Edward Gough Whitlam, 1972-75
John Malcolm Fraser, 1975-1983
Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke, 1983-1991
Paul John Keating, 1991-1996
John Winston Howard, 1996-2007
Kevin Michael Rudd, 2007-
