No. Name (Birth -- Death) Portrait Party Term of office Electorate served Elections Ministry Ref Sir Edmund Barton (1849 -- 1920) Protectionist 1 January 1901 24 September 1903 Hunter, NSW, 1901 -- 1903 (resigned) 1901 Barton Alfred Deakin (1856 -- 1919) Protectionist 24 September 1903 27 April 1904 Ballaarat, Vic, 1901 -- 1913 (retired) 1903 1st Deakin Chris Watson (1867 -- 1941) Labour 27 April 1904 18 August 1904 Bland, NSW, 1901 -- 1906 South Sydney, NSW, 1906 -- 1910 (retired) -- Watson George Reid (1845 -- 1918) Free Trade 18 August 1904 5 July 1905 East Sydney, NSW, 1901 -- 1909 (resigned) -- Reid (2) Alfred Deakin (1856 -- 1919) Protectionist 5 July 1905 13 November 1908 Ballaarat, Vic, 1901 -- 1913 (retired) -- 2nd Deakin 1906 3rd Deakin 5 Andrew Fisher (1862 -- 1928) Labour 13 November 1908 2 June 1909 Wide Bay, Qld, 1901 -- 1915 (resigned) -- 1st Fisher (2) Alfred Deakin (1856 -- 1919) Commonwealth Liberal 2 June 1909 29 April 1910 Ballaarat, Vic, 1901 -- 1913 (retired) -- 4th Deakin (5) Andrew Fisher (1862 -- 1928) Labor 29 April 1910 24 June 1913 Wide Bay, Qld, 1901 -- 1915 (resigned) 1910 2nd Fisher 6 Joseph Cook (1860 -- 1947) Commonwealth Liberal 24 June 1913 17 September 1914 Parramatta, NSW, 1901 -- 1921 (resigned) 1913 Cook (5) Andrew Fisher (1862 -- 1928) Labor 17 September 1914 27 October 1915 Wide Bay, Qld, 1901 -- 1915 (resigned) 1914 3rd Fisher Billy Hughes (1862 -- 1952) Labor 27 October 1915 14 November 1916 West Sydney, NSW, 1901 -- 1917 Bendigo, Vic, 1917 -- 1922 North Sydney, NSW, 1922 -- 1949 Bradfield, NSW, 1949 -- 1952 (died) -- 1st Hughes 7 National Labor 14 November 1916 17 February 1917 -- 2nd Hughes Nationalist 17 February 1917 9 February 1923 -- 3rd Hughes 1917 4th Hughes 1919 5th Hughes 8 Stanley Bruce (1883 -- 1967) Nationalist (Coalition) 9 February 1923 22 October 1929 Flinders, Vic, 1918 -- 1929 (defeated); 1931 -- 1933 (resigned) 1922 1st Bruce 1925 2nd Bruce 1928 3rd Bruce 9 James Scullin (1876 -- 1953) Labor 22 October 1929 6 January 1932 Corangamite, Vic, 1910 -- 1913 (defeated) Yarra, Vic, 1922 -- 1949 (retired) 1929 Scullin 10 Joseph Lyons (1879 -- 1939) United Australia (Coalition post-1934) 6 January 1932 7 April 1939 † Wilmot, Tas, 1929 -- 1939 (died) 1931 1st Lyons 1934 2nd Lyons -- 3rd Lyons 1937 4th Lyons 11 Sir Earle Page (1880 -- 1961) Country (Coalition) 7 April 1939 26 April 1939 Cowper, NSW 1919 -- 1961 (defeated) -- Page 12 Robert Menzies (1894 -- 1978) United Australia (Coalition post-1940) 26 April 1939 28 August 1941 Kooyong, Vic, 1934 -- 1966 (resigned) -- 1st Menzies 2nd Menzies 1940 3rd Menzies 13 Arthur Fadden (1894 -- 1973) Country (Coalition) 28 August 1941 7 October 1941 Darling Downs, Qld 1936 -- 1949 McPherson, Qld 1949 -- 1958 (retired) -- Fadden 14 John Curtin (1885 -- 1945) Labor 7 October 1941 5 July 1945 † Fremantle, WA, 1928 -- 1931 (defeated); 1934 -- 1945 (died) -- 1st Curtin 1943 2nd Curtin 15 Frank Forde (1890 -- 1983) Labor 6 July 1945 13 July 1945 Capricornia, Qld, 1922 -- 1946 (defeated) -- Forde 16 Ben Chifley (1885 -- 1951) Labor 13 July 1945 19 December 1949 Macquarie, NSW, 1928 -- 1931 (defeated); 1940 -- 1951 (died) -- 1st Chifley 1946 2nd Chifley (12) Sir Robert Menzies (1894 -- 1978) Liberal (Coalition) 19 December 1949 26 January 1966 Kooyong, Vic, 1934 -- 1966 (resigned) 1949 4th Menzies 1951 5th Menzies 1954 6th Menzies 1955 7th Menzies 1958 8th Menzies 1961 9th Menzies 1963 10th Menzies 17 Harold Holt (1908 -- 1967) Liberal (Coalition) 26 January 1966 19 December 1967 † Fawkner, Vic, 1935 -- 1949 Higgins, Vic, 1949 -- 1967 (disappeared) -- 1st Holt 1966 2nd Holt 18 John McEwen (1900 -- 1980) Country (Coalition) 19 December 1967 10 January 1968 Echuca, Vic, 1934 -- 1937 Indi, Vic, 1937 -- 1949 Murray, Vic, 1949 -- 1971 (resigned) -- McEwen 19 John Gorton (1911 -- 2002) Liberal (Coalition) 10 January 1968 10 March 1971 Senator 1950 -- 1968 (resigned) MP for Higgins, Vic, 1968 -- 1975 (retired) -- 1st Gorton 1969 2nd Gorton 20 William McMahon (1908 -- 1988) Liberal (Coalition) 10 March 1971 5 December 1972 Lowe, NSW, 1949 -- 1982 (resigned) -- McMahon 21 Gough Whitlam (1916 -- 2014) Labor 5 December 1972 11 November Werriwa, NSW, 1952 -- 1978 (resigned) 1972 1st Whitlam -- 2nd Whitlam 3rd Whitlam 22 Malcolm Fraser (1930 -- 2015) Liberal (Coalition) 11 November 11 March Wannon, Vic, 1955 -- 1983 (resigned) -- 1st Fraser 2nd Fraser 1977 3rd Fraser 1980 4th Fraser 23 Bob Hawke (1929 --) Labor 11 March 20 December 1991 Wills, Vic, 1980 -- 1992 (resigned) 1st Hawke 1984 2nd Hawke 3rd Hawke 4th Hawke 24 Paul Keating (1944 --) Labor 20 December 1991 11 March Blaxland, NSW, 1969 -- 1996 (resigned) -- 1st Keating 2nd Keating 25 John Howard (1939 --) Liberal (Coalition) 11 March 3 December 2007 Bennelong, NSW, 1974 -- 2007 (defeated) 1st Howard 1998 2nd Howard 3rd Howard 4th Howard 26 Kevin Rudd (1957 --) Labor 3 December 2007 24 June Griffith, Qld, 1998 -- 2013 (resigned) 2007 1st Rudd 27 Julia Gillard (1961 --) Labor 24 June 27 June 2013 Lalor, Vic, 1998 -- 2013 (retired) -- 1st Gillard 2nd Gillard (26) Kevin Rudd (1957 --) Labor 27 June 2013 18 September 2013 Griffith, Qld, 1998 -- 2013 (resigned) -- 2nd Rudd 28 Tony Abbott (1957 --) Liberal (Coalition) 18 September 2013 15 September 2015 Warringah, NSW, since 1994 2013 Abbott 29 Malcolm Turnbull (1954 --) Liberal (Coalition) 15 September 2015 24 August 2018 Wentworth, NSW, since 2004 -- 1st Turnbull 2016 2nd Turnbull 30 Scott Morrison (1968 --) Liberal (Coalition) 24 August 2018 Incumbent Cook, NSW, since 2007 -- Morrison
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