XXVIII - Tony Abbott In the fallout from the 2007 Federal Election in which John Howard became only the second Prime Minister after ...

XXVI - Kevin Rudd The story of Kevin Rudd's premiership begins almost a decade before he even won the top spot. Rudd was elected ...

XXV - John Howard John Howard was elected to the seat of Bennelong in the 1974 election whilst Gough Whitlam was still Prime Minister...

XXII - Malcolm Fraser Depending on how you want to read events, Malcolm Fraser's first term of government lasted for something in ...

XXI - Edward "Gough" Whitlam For the first time in 23 years, Australia had a Labor Government. Although Labor won a 9 sea...

XX - William "Billy" McMahon William "Billy" McMahon was one of the original 49ers. That is, he was part of the g...

XII - Robert Menzies (again) Following Chifley's use of the army to break up a coal miners' strike in August of 1949 and wit...

XVI - Ben Chifley Joseph Benedict "Ben" Chifley took over the leadership of the Labor Party and with it the premiership, on...

XV - Franics Forde There's sort of a strange legend which grew up around the Premiership of Francis "Frank" Forde. ...

XIV - John Curtin When Scullin resigned as Opposition Leader in 1935, it was expected that Francis "Frank" Forde would take...

XIII - Arthur Fadden When Menzies resigned as leader of the UAP because of increasing pressure to resign, the party was so completely...

XII - Robert Menzies When Earl Page refused to serve under Menzies, he withdrew the support of the Country Party for the United Austr...

XI - Sir Earle Page Earle Page was first elected to the seat of Cowper on the north coast of NSW in 1919. As a member of The Farmers...

X - Joseph Lyons Joseph Lyons was one of eight children, whose father had lost the family's bakery business due to ill-health. You...

IX - James Scullin James Scullin was elected before the Great War but lost his seat of Corangamite not too long after. He moved to th...

VIII - Stanley Bruce There is a general trend in Australia politics that when the economy is doing well, the nation will tend to dr...

VII - Billy Hughes William Morris "Billy" Hughes was a wiley political character who was described by his opponents as a sp...

VI - Joseph Cook The 1913 Federal Election saw a win for the combined efforts of the Commonwealth Liberal Party but only just. Newly ...

V - Andrew Fisher Regular followers of this blog will have noted that I refer to the principle known as Duverger's law time and ag...

II - Alfred Deakin If Edmund Barton being a reasonable person, couldn't hold together the parliament, suffered poor health and ha...