who was the prime minister of australia in 1958?
Robert Menzies
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 Stanley Melbourne Bruce , 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne , CH , MC , PC , FRS ( 15 April 1883 – 25 August 1967 ) was the eighth Prime Minister of Australia ( 1923 – 29 ) . Bruce made wide @-@ ranging reforms and mounted a comprehensive nation @-@ building program in government , but his controversial handling of industrial relations led to his dramatic defeat at the polls in 1929 . He later pursued a long and influential diplomatic career as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom , at the League of Nations and as Chairman of the Food and Agriculture Organization Council . 

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 Gough Whitlam , prime minister for fewer than three years between 1972 and 1975 , pushed through a raft of reforms that radically changed Australia 's economic , legal and cultural landscape . 

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 Australia 's leadership changed again during the Borneo Campaign . Prime Minister Curtin suffered a heart attack in November 1944 and Deputy Prime Minister Frank Forde acted in his place until 22 January 1945 . Curtin was hospitalised with another bout of illness in April 1945 and Treasurer Ben Chifley became acting Prime Minister as Forde was attending the San Francisco Conference . Curtin died on 5 July 1945 and Forde was sworn in as Prime Minister . Forde did not have the support of his party , however , and was replaced by Chifley after a leadership ballot was held on 13 July . 

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 The news that Whitlam had been dismissed spread across Australia during the afternoon , triggering immediate protest demonstrations . On 12 November , Scholes wrote to the Queen , asking her to restore Whitlam as Prime Minister . The reply from the Queen 's Private Secretary , Sir Martin Charteris , dated 17 November 1975 , stated : 

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 Andrew Fisher ( 29 August 1862 – 22 October 1928 ) was an Australian politician who served as Prime Minister of Australia on three separate occasions between 1908 and 1915 . Fisher 's second government between 1910 and 1913 completed a vast legislative programme which made him , along with Protectionist Alfred Deakin , the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation . The Fisher government legacy of reforms and national development lasted beyond the divisions that would later occur with World War I and Billy Hughes ' conscription push . 
