Rank: No: Prime Minister: Portrait: Party: District: Assumed Office: Left Office: TERM Time in Office: TOTAL Time in Office: Election Wins: 1. 12th Sir Robert Menzies (1894 -- 1978) United Australia Kooyong, VIC (1934 -- 1966) 26 April 1939 29 August 1941 7002856000000000000 ♠ 2 years, 125 days 18 years, 163 days 1940 1949 1951 1954 1955 1958 1961 1963 Liberal 19 December 1949 26 January 1966 7003588200000000000 ♠ 16 years, 38 days 2. 25th John Howard (born 1939) Liberal Bennelong, NSW (1974 -- 2007) 11 March 1996 3 December 2007 7003428400000000000 ♠ 11 years, 267 days 1996 1998 2001 3. 23rd Bob Hawke (born 1929) Labor Wills, VIC (1980 -- 1992) 11 March 1983 20 December 1991 7003320600000000000 ♠ 8 years, 284 days 1983 1984 1987 4. 22nd Malcolm Fraser (1930 -- 2015) Liberal Wannon, VIC (1955 -- 1983) 11 November 1975 11 March 1983 7003267700000000000 ♠ 7 years, 120 days 1975 1977 1980 5. 7th Billy Hughes (1862 -- 1952) Labor West Sydney, NSW (1901 -- 1917) Bendigo, VIC (1917 -- 1922) North Sydney, NSW (1922 -- 1949) 27 October 1915 9 February 1923 7003266200000000000 ♠ 7 years, 105 days 1917 1919 1922 National Labor Nationalist 6. 10th Joseph Lyons (1879 -- 1939) United Australia Wilmot, TAS (1929 -- 1939) 6 January 1932 7 April 1939 7003264800000000000 ♠ 7 years, 91 days 1931 1934 1937 7. 8th Stanley Bruce (1883 -- 1967) Nationalist Flinders, VIC (1918 -- 1929) 9 February 1923 22 October 1929 7003244700000000000 ♠ 6 years, 255 days 1925 1928 8. 2nd Alfred Deakin (1856 -- 1919) Protectionist Ballaarat, VIC (1901 -- 1913) 24 September 1903 27 April 1904 7002216000000000000 ♠ 216 days 4 years, 313 days 1903 1906 5 July 1905 13 November 1908 7003122700000000000 ♠ 3 years, 131 days Commonwealth Liberal 2 June 1909 29 April 1910 7002331000000000000 ♠ 331 days 9. 5th Andrew Fisher (1862 -- 1928) Labor Wide Bay, QLD (1901 -- 1915) 13 November 1908 2 June 1909 7002201000000000000 ♠ 201 days 4 years, 297 days 1910 1914 29 April 1910 24 June 1913 7003115200000000000 ♠ 3 years, 56 days 17 September 1914 27 October 1915 7002405000000000000 ♠ 1 year, 40 days 10. 16th Ben Chifley (1885 -- 1951) Labor Macquarie, NSW (1940 -- 1951) 13 July 1945 19 December 1949 7003162000000000000 ♠ 4 years, 159 days 1946 11. 24th Paul Keating (born 1944) Labor Blaxland, NSW (1969 -- 1996) 20 December 1991 11 March 1996 7003154300000000000 ♠ 4 years, 82 days 12. 14th John Curtin (1885 -- 1945) Labor Fremantle, WA (1934 -- 1945) 7 October 1941 5 July 1945 7003136700000000000 ♠ 3 years, 271 days 1943 13. 19th John Gorton (1911 -- 2002) Liberal 22.2. 1950 -- 1.2. 1968: Senate (Vic) 2.2. 1968 -- 23.2. 1968: Not in Parliament 24.2. 1968 -- 11.11. 1975: Higgins, VIC (1968 -- 1975) 10 January 1968 10 March 1971 7003115500000000000 ♠ 3 years, 59 days 1969 14. 27th Julia Gillard (born 1961) Labor Lalor, VIC (1998 -- 2013) 24 June 2010 27 June 2013 7003109900000000000 ♠ 3 years, 3 days 15. 21st Gough Whitlam (1916 -- 2014) Labor Werriwa, NSW (1952 -- 1978) 5 December 1972 11 November 1975 7003107100000000000 ♠ 2 years, 341 days 1972 1974 16. 26th Kevin Rudd (born 1957) Labor Griffith, QLD (1998 -- 2013) 3 December 2007 24 June 2010 7002934000000000000 ♠ 2 years, 203 days 2 years, 286 days 2007 27 June 2013 18 September 2013 7001830000000000000 ♠ 83 days 17. 1st Sir Edmund Barton (1849 -- 1920) Protectionist Hunter, NSW (1901 -- 1903) 1 January 1901 24 September 1903 7002996000000000000 ♠ 2 years, 266 days 1901 18. 9th James Scullin (1876 -- 1953) Labor Yarra, VIC (1922 -- 1949) 22 October 1929 6 January 1932 7002806000000000000 ♠ 2 years, 76 days 1929 19. 29th Malcolm Turnbull (born 1954) Liberal Wentworth, NSW (2004 -- present) 15 September 2015 Incumbent 7002783000000000000 ♠ 2 years, 52 days 2016 20. 28th Tony Abbott (born 1957) Liberal Warringah, NSW (1994 -- present) 18 September 2013 15 September 2015 7002727000000000000 ♠ 1 year, 362 days 2013 21. 17th Harold Holt (1908 -- 1967) Liberal Higgins, VIC (1949 -- 1967) 26 January 1966 19 December 1967 7002692000000000000 ♠ 1 year, 327 days 1966 22. 20th William McMahon (1908 -- 1988) Liberal Lowe, NSW (1949 -- 1982) 10 March 1971 5 December 1972 7002636000000000000 ♠ 1 year, 270 days 23. 6th Joseph Cook (1860 -- 1947) Commonwealth Liberal Parramatta, NSW (1901 -- 1921) 24 June 1913 17 September 1914 7002450000000000000 ♠ 1 year, 85 days 1913 24. 4th George Reid (1845 -- 1918) Free Trade East Sydney, NSW (1901 -- 1910) 18 August 1904 5 July 1905 7002321000000000000 ♠ 321 days 25. 3rd Chris Watson (1867 -- 1941) Labor Bland, NSW (1901 -- 1906) 27 April 1904 18 August 1904 7002113000000000000 ♠ 113 days 26. 13th Arthur Fadden (1894 -- 1973) Country Darling Downs, QLD (1936 -- 1949) 29 August 1941 7 October 1941 7001390000000000000 ♠ 39 days 27. 18th John McEwen (1900 -- 1980) Country Murray, VIC (1949 -- 1971) 19 December 1967 10 January 1968 7001220000000000000 ♠ 22 days 28. 11th Sir Earle Page (1880 -- 1961) Country Cowper, NSW (1919 -- 1961) 7 April 1939 26 April 1939 7001190000000000000 ♠ 19 days 29. 15th Frank Forde (1890 -- 1983) Labor Capricornia, QLD (1922 -- 1946) 6 July 1945 13 July 1945 7000700000000000000 ♠ 7 days
who was the longest serving australian prime minister
Sir Robert Menzies