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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
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.
There have been 15 prime ministers from New South Wales, 10 from Victoria, 4 from Queensland, and one each from Western Australia and Tasmania. Note: Hughes became prime minister in 1915 as the member for West Sydney (NSW) but spent the bulk of his prime ministership (May 1917-Dec 1922) as the member for Bendigo (Vic). He represented North ...
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 ...
