Below is a history on Australia's Prime Ministers, starting from our first, and ending with our most current

(as at January 2004)

NAME

PARTY

FROM

TO

Sir Edmund Barton

Prot

01/01/1901

24/09/1903

Alfred Deakin

Prot

24/09/1903

27/04/1904

John Watson

ALP

27/04/1904

17/08/1904

George Reid

FT

18/08/1904

05/07/1905

Alfred Deakin

Prot

05/07/1905

13/11/1908

Andrew Fisher

ALP

29/04/1910

24/06/1913

Joseph Cook

LIB

24/06/1913

17/09/1914

Andrew Fisher

ALP

17/09/1914

27/10/1915

William Hughes

ALP, NAT, LAB

27/10/1915

09/02/1923

Stanley Bruce

NAT

09/02/1923

22/10/1929

James Scullin

ALP

22/10/1929

06/01/1932

Joseph Lyons

UAP

06/01/1932

07/04/1939

Sir Earle Page

CP

07/04/1939

26/04/1939

Robert Menzies

UAP

26/041939

29/08/1941

Arthur Fadden

CP

29/08/1941

07/10/1941

John Curtin

ALP

07/10/1941

05/07/1945

Francis Ford

ALP

06/07/1945

13/07/1945

Joseph Chifley

ALP

13/07/1945

19/12/1949

Robert Menzies

LIB

19/12/1949

26/01/1966

Harold Holt

LIB

26/01/1966

19/12/1967

John McEwan

CP

19/12/1967

10/01/1968

John Gorton

LIB

10/01/1968

10/03/1971

William McMahon

LIB

10/03/1971

05/12/1972

Gough Whitlam

ALP

05/12/1972

11/11/1975

Malcolm Fraser

LIB

11/11/1975

11/03/1983

Bob Hawke

ALP

11/03/1983

20/12/1991

Paul Keating

ALP

20/12/1991

11/03/1996

John Howard

LIB

11/03/1996

Current

Australia's current Prime Minister, John Howard

Parliament House, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT, Australia


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