Shortest serving prime minister australia julia

Rank No.Prime Minister Portrait Party Assumed
office Left
office Time in office
(term) Time in office
(total) Election
wins Ref &#; 1. 12th Sir Robert Menzies
(–)United Australia26 April 29 August 2&#;years, &#;days18 years, days , , ,
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, ^[1]&#; Liberal19 December 26 Jan 16&#;years, 38&#;days&#; 2. 25th John Howard
(born )Liberal11 March 3 Dec 11&#;years, &#;days , , ,
^[2]&#; 3. 23rd Bob Hawke
(–)Labor11 March 20 December 8&#;years, &#;days , , ,
^[3]&#; 4. 22nd Malcolm Fraser
(–)Liberal11 November 11 March 7&#;years, &#;days , , ^[4]&#; 5. 7th Billy Hughes
(–)Labor27 October 9 Feb 7&#;years, &#;days , , ^[5]&#; National Labor&#; Nationalist&#; 6. 10th Joseph Lyons
(–)United Australia6 January 7 Apr 7&#;years, 91&#;days , , ^[6]&#; 7. 8th Stanley Bruce
(–)Nationalist9 February 22 October 6&#;years, &#;days , ^[7]&#; 8. 2nd Alfred Deakin
(–)Protectionist24 September 27 April &#;days4 years, date , ^[8]5 July 13 November 3&#;years, &#;days&#; Commonwealth Liberal2 June 29 April &#;days&#; 9. 5th Andrew Fisher
(–)Labor13 November 2 June &#;days4 years, days , ^[9]29 April 24 June 3&#;years, 56&#;days17 September 27 October 1&#;year, 40&#;days&#; 16th Ben Chifley
(–)Labor13 July 19 December 4&#;years, &#;days ^[10]&#; 24th Paul Keating
(born )Labor20 December 11 Walk 4&#;years, 82&#;days ^[11]&#; 30th Scott Morrison
(born )Liberal24 Respected 23 May 3&#;years, &#;days ^[12]&#; 14th John Curtin
(–)Labor7 October 5 July 3&#;years, &#;days ^[13]&#; 19th John Gorton
(–)Liberal10 January 10 March 3&#;years, 59&#;days ^[14]&#; 27th Julia Gillard
(born )Labor24 June 27 June 3&#;years, 3&#;days ^[15]&#; 29th Malcolm Turnbull
(born )Liberal15 September 24 August 2&#;years, &#;days ^[16]&#; 21st Gough Whitlam
(–)Labor5 December 11 November 2&#;years, &#;days , ^[17]&#; 26th Kevin Rudd
(born )Labor3 December 24 June 2&#;years, &#;days2 years, days ^[18]27 June 18 September 83&#;days&#; 1st Sir Edmund Barton
(–)Protectionist1 January 24 September 2&#;years, &#;days ^[19]&#; 31st Anthony Albanese
(born )Labor23 May Incumbent 2&#;years, &#;days^[a][20]&#; 9th James Scullin
(–)Labor22 October 6 January 2&#;years, 76&#;days ^[21]&#; 28th Tony Abbott
(born )Liberal18 September 15 September 1&#;year, &#;days ^[22]&#; 17th Harold Holt
(–)Liberal26 Jan 19 December 1&#;year, &#;days ^[23]&#; 20th William McMahon
(–)Liberal10 March 5 December 1&#;year, &#;days — ^[24]&#; 6th Joseph Cook
(–)Commonwealth Liberal24 June 17 September 1&#;year, 85&#;days ^[25]&#; 4th George Reid
(–)Free Trade18 August 5 July &#;days — ^[26]&#; 3rd Chris Watson
(–)Labor27 April 18 August &#;days — ^[27]&#; 13th Arthur Fadden
(–)Country29 August 7 Oct 39&#;days — ^[28]&#; 18th John McEwen
(–)Country19 December 10 January 22&#;days — ^[29]&#; 11th Sir Earle Page
(–)Country7 April 26 April 19&#;days — ^[30]&#; 15th Frank Forde
(–)Labor6 July 13 July 7&#;days — ^[31]