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This timeline shows most of the early life, the political career and death of each prime minister from 1901. The first prime minister was Edmund Barton in the early 20th century. Key. Each dark coloured bar denotes the time spent as prime minister; A light colour denotes time spent in Parliament before or after serving as prime minister
2013 Australian federal election: Tony Abbott defeats Kevin Rudd to become the 28th Prime Minister of Australia. 2014: 14 July: Carbon price is dropped by the Abbott government. 21 October: 21st Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam dies, aged 98. 15–16 December: 2014 Sydney hostage crisis. 2015: 20 March
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The prime minister chairs the Cabinet and thus heads the federal executive government. Under the principles of responsible government, the prime minister is both a member and responsible to Parliament. The current prime minister is Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party, who assumed the office on 23 May 2022.
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List of prime ministers of Australia by time in office. This is a list of prime ministers of Australia by time in office. The basis of the list is the inclusive number of days from being sworn in until leaving office, if counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be one greater.
RankRankNo.Prime Minister1.12thSir Robert Menzies (1894–1978)1.12thSir Robert Menzies (1894–1978)2.25thJohn Howard (born 1939)3.23rdBob Hawke (1929–2019)Anthony Norman Albanese ( / ˌælbəˈniːzi / AL-bə-NEEZ-ee or / ˈælbəniːz / AL-bə-neez; [nb 1] born 2 March 1963) is an Australian politician serving as the 31st and current prime minister of Australia since 2022. [3] He has been leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2019 and the member of parliament (MP) for the division of ...
28th century. 29th century. 30th century. In contemporary history, the third millennium is the current millennium in the Anno Domini or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 ( MMI) and will end on 31 December 3000 ( MMM ), spanning the 21st to 30th centuries.
This is a chronologically ordered list of the prime ministers, from the earliest to the most recent. Each prime minister is listed only once; multiple terms are noted in parentheses. Edmund Barton (1901–03) Alfred Deakin (1903–04; 1905–08; 1909–10) John Christian Watson (1904) George Houston Reid (1904–05) Andrew Fisher (1908–09 ...
