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The Lodge, the official residence of the prime minister. The prime minister of Australia is the leader of the Australian Government and the Cabinet of Australia, with the support of the majority of the House of Representatives. Thirty-one people (thirty men and one woman) have served in the position since the office was created in 1901.
The first premier was John Foster McCreight, who was inaugurated in 1871. Joseph Martin spent the shortest time in office, at 106 days. At over twenty years, W. A. C. Bennett spent the longest time in office and is the only premier to serve in more than five parliaments. The incumbent premier is David Eby, who was sworn in on November 18, 2022.
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2334 BC – 2279 BC: ( short chronology) Sargon of Akkad 's conquest of Mesopotamia. c. 2300 BC: Indus Valley civilisation (Harappan) flourishing in modern-day eastern Pakistan - western India. c. 2300 BC: Metals start to be used in Northern Europe. c. 2300 BC: Unetice culture emerges in the modern day Czech Republic.
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; 1910–13; 1914–15) Joseph Cook (1913–14) William Morris Hughes (1915–16; 1916–23) Stanley Melbourne Bruce (1923–29) James Henry Scullin (1929–32) Joseph Aloysius Lyons (1932–39) Earle Page (1939)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Islam is the second largest religion in Australia. According to the 2021 Census in Australia, the combined number of people who self-identified as Muslims in Australia, from all forms of Islam, constituted 813,392 people, or 3.2% of the total Australian population.
The prime minister of Canada is an official who serves as the primary minister of the Crown, chair of the Cabinet, and thus head of government of Canada. Twenty-three people (twenty-two men and one woman) have served as prime ministers. Officially, the prime minister is appointed by the governor general of Canada, but by constitutional ...
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.
