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Prime Minister Portrait Party Assumed office Left office Time in office (term) Time in office (total) Election wins Ref 1. 12th Sir Robert Menzies (1894–1978) United Australia: 26 April 1939 29 August 1941 2 years, 125 days: 18 years, 163 days 1940, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1963 [1] Liberal: 19 December 1949 26 January 1966 16 ...
List of chief ministers of the Northern Territory by time in office; Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory. List of chief ministers of the Australian Capital Territory by time in office; Prime Minister of Australia. List of prime ministers of Australia by time in office; List of longest-serving members of the Parliament of Australia
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. [1] [2] Thirty-one people (thirty men and one woman) have served in the position since the office was created in 1901. [3]
15th Prime Minister of Australia; In office ... from 1932 to 1946 and is the shortest-serving prime minister in Australia's ... but served only a single term before ...
Menzies’ second term of over 16 years was the longest single term. This term is also longer than the accumulated period of terms of any other prime minister. The shortest serving prime minister was Frank Forde, who served in the position in an interim capacity for one week in July 1945 after the death of John Curtin. The prime minister with ...
Ms Truss's premiership is the shortest by some margin, with George Canning previously holding the unwanted title.He died 118 days after taking office in 1827. Of more modern prime ministers, Alec ...
The first three national elections resulted in minority governments. The world’s first ever Labor Party Prime Minister took office in Australia in 1904, though Labor governed in minority. The first majority government was formed in 1909, when the Protectionist Party merged with the Free Trade Party in an anti-socialist alliance.
It took Liz Truss 12 years in Parliament to reach the pinnacle of British political power. Now, after just 44 days leading the country, she has assumed the title of shortest-serving prime minister ...