list of prime ministers of Australia

Australia, established as a federated union in 1901, is a constitutional monarchy, and its government is led by a prime minister, generally the leader of the majority political party or coalition in the federal House of Representatives. This is a chronologically ordered list of the prime ministers, from the earliest to the most recent. Each prime minister is listed only once; multiple terms are noted in parentheses.

• Edmund Barton (1901–03)
• Alfred Deakin (1903–04; 1905–08; 1909–10)
• John Christian Watson (1904)
• George Houston Reid (1904–05)
• Andrew Fisher (1908–09; 1910–13; 1914–15)
• Joseph Cook (1913–14)
• William Morris Hughes (1915–16; 1916–23)
• Stanley Melbourne Bruce (1923–29)
• James Henry Scullin (1929–32)
• Joseph Aloysius Lyons (1932–39)
• Earle Page (1939)
• Robert Gordon Menzies (1939–40; 1940–41; 1949–66)
• Arthur William Fadden (1941)
• John Curtin (1941–45)
• Francis Michael Forde (1945)
• Joseph Benedict Chifley (1945–49)
• Harold Holt (1966–67)
• John McEwen (1967–68)
• John Grey Gorton (1968–71)
• William McMahon (1971–72)
• Gough Whitlam (1972–75)
• Malcolm Fraser (1975–83)
• Robert Hawke (1983–91)
• Paul Keating (1991–96)
• John Howard (1996–2007)
• Kevin Rudd (2007–10; 2013)
• Julia Gillard (2010–13)
• Tony Abbott (2013–15)
• Malcolm Turnbull (2015–18)
• Scott Morrison (2018–22)
• Anthony Albanese (2022– )