List of Australia Prime Ministers, Complete List of PM of Australia, Australia PM’s party term history, Australia’s PMs
List of Australia Prime Ministers, Complete List of PM of Australia, Australia PM’s party term history, Australia's PMs
Elections in Australia take place periodically to elect the legislature of the Commonwealth of Australia, as well as for each Australian state and territory. Elections in all jurisdictions follow similar principles, though there are minor variations between them. The elections for the Australian Parliament are held under the federal electoral system, which is uniform throughout the country, and the electoral systems of each state and territory.
Current PM of Australia –– Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is the 29th and current Prime Minister of Australia. Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in as the 29th Prime Minister of Australia on 15 September 2015.
He was Leader of the Opposition from 16 September 2008 to 1 December 2009 and was later Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband.
Turnbull became Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia after he defeated the incumbent Tony Abbott at the September 2015 Liberal leadership ballot.
This is a list of Prime Ministers of Australia along with year and party.
| PRIME MINISTERS OF AUSTRALIA | ||
| YEAR | NAME | PARTY |
| 1901-03 | Edmund Barton | Protectionist |
| 1903-04 | Alfred Deakin | Protectionist |
| 1904 | John Watson | Labor |
| 1904-05 | George Reid | Free Trade |
| 1905-08 | Alfred Deakin | Protectionist |
| 1908-09 | Andrew Fisher | Labor |
| 1909-10 | Alfred Deakin | Fusion |
| 1910-13 | Andrew Fisher | Labor |
| 1913-14 | Joseph Cook | Liberal |
| 1914-15 | Andrew Fisher | Labor |
| 1915-17 | William Hughes | Labor |
| 1917-23 | William Hughes | Nationalist |
| 1923-29 | Stanley Bruce | Nationalist |
| 1929-32 | James Scullin | Labor |
| 1932-39 | Joseph Lyons | United |
| 1939 | Earle Page | Country |
| 1939-41 | Robert Menzies | United |
| 1941 | Arthur Fadden | Country |
| 1941-45 | John Curtin | Labor |
| 1945 | Francis Forde | Labor |
| 1945-49 | Ben Chifley | Labor |
| 1949-66 | Robert Menzies | Liberal |
| 1966-67 | Harold Holt | Liberal |
| 1967-68 | John McEwan | Country |
| 1968-71 | John Gorton | Liberal |
| 1971-72 | John McMahon | Liberal |
| 1972-75 | Gough Whitlam | Labor |
| 1975-83 | Malcolm Fraser | Liberal |
| 1983-91 | Robert Hawke | Labor |
| 1991-96 | Paul Keating | Labor |
| 1996-2007 | John Howard | Liberal |
| 2007-10 | Kevin Rudd | Labor |
| 2910-12 | Julia Gillard | Labor |
| 2012-14 | Kevin Rudd | Labor |
| 2014-? | Tony Abbott | Liberal |
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