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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– )