Australia's Prime Ministers timeline

Jan 1, 1901

Sir Edmund Barton

Australia's First prime minister.
Sep 24, 1903

Alfred Deakin
Apr 27, 1904

Chris Watson

First Labour prime minister.
Aug 18, 1904

George Reid

First Free-trade prime minister.
Jul 5, 1905

Alfred Deakin
Nov 13, 1908

Andrew Fisher
Jun 2, 1909

Alfred Deakin

First Commonwealth Liberal prime minister
Apr 29, 1910

Andrew Fisher
Jun 24, 1913

Joseph Cook
Sep 17, 1914

Andrew Fisher
Oct 27, 1915

Billy Hughes

Most changes of party during term of office and first National Labor and Nationalist prime minister,
Feb 9, 1923

Stanley Bruce
Oct 22, 1929

James Scullin
Jan 6, 1932

Joseph Lyons

First United Australia prime minister.
Apr 7, 1939

Sir Earle Page

First Country prime minister.
Apr 26, 1939

Robert Menzies
Aug 28, 1941

Arthur Fadden
Oct 7, 1941

John Curtin
Jul 13, 1945

Frank Forde
Jul 13, 1945

Ben Chifley
Dec 19, 1949

Sir Robert Menzies

First Liberal prime minister.
Jan 26, 1966

Harold Holt
Dec 19, 1967

John McEwen
Jan 10, 1968

John Gorton
Mar 10, 1971

William McMahon
Dec 5, 1972

Gough Whitlam
Nov 11, 1975

Malcolm Fraser
Mar 11, 1983

Bob Hawke
Dec 20, 1991

Paul Keating
Mar 11, 1996

John Howard
Dec 3, 2007

Kevin Rudd
Jun 24, 2010

Julia Gillard

First female prime minister.
Jun 27, 2013

Kevin Rudd
Sep 18, 2013

Tony Abbott
Sep 15, 2015

Malcolm Turnbull

Current prime minister.

Sir Edmund Barton