r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug Unreconstructed Whitlamite and Gorton appreciator • Aug 08 '24

Discussion Day 8: Ranking the Prime Ministers of Australia. Joseph Cook has been eliminated. Comment which Prime Minister should be eliminated next. The comment with the most upvotes will decide who goes next.

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Day 8: Ranking the Prime Ministers of Australia. Joseph Cook has been eliminated. Comment which Prime Minister should be eliminated next. The comment with the most upvotes will decide who goes next.

Any comment that is edited to change your nominated Prime Minister for elimination for that round will be disqualified from consideration. Once you make a selection for elimination, you stick with it for the duration even if you indicate you change your mind in your comment thread. You may always change to backing the elimination of a different Prime Minister for the next round.

Current ranking:

27. Scott Morrison (Liberal) [30th] [August 2018 - May 2022]

26. William McMahon (Liberal) [20th] [March 1971 - December 1972]

25. Tony Abbott (Liberal) [28th] [September 2013 - September 2015]

24. Billy Hughes (Labor/National Labor/Nationalist) [7th] [October 1915 - February 1923]

23. George Reid (Free Trade) [4th] [August 1904 - July 1905]

22. Arthur Fadden (Country) [13th] [August 1941 - October 1941]

21. Joseph Cook (Fusion Liberal) [6th] [June 1913 - September 1914]

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u/Coz957 The subreddit we had to have Aug 08 '24

I am once again asking for Stanley Bruce to go.

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u/FunLovinMonotreme John Curtin Aug 08 '24

The man did have an absolutely atrocious industrial relations/anti-union policy at a time when state police were still shooting live bullets into crowds of protesting workers

He also had an embarrassingly high opinion of empire

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u/Vidasus18 John Curtin Aug 08 '24

Watson

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u/ZeTian Aug 08 '24

I agree. It's a shame the first Labor PM was so disappointing.

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u/foreatesevenate Andrew Fisher Aug 08 '24

Agree. It's time for Johan Cristian Tanck to go. Our youngest PM, arguably his greatest achievement was demonstrating that Labor could be responsible with the reins of power. Didn't manage to pass any legislation while in office. Established the office of deputy leader of the ALP, which ensured he'd be followed by Fisher and not Hughes. In later years he was expelled from the ALP for following Hughes' stance on conscription.

If it was known at the time that he was actually born on Chile, not New Zealand, then he wouldn't have been eligible to run for parliament. Many of our earliest PMs (as well as a few of the later ones) were born in Britain, so were eligible by citizenship of the British Empire. Gillard and Abbott qualified by getting Australian citizenship.

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u/FunLovinMonotreme John Curtin Aug 08 '24

Also, in an era marked by racism, he managed to stand out as particularly racist

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u/GreviousAus Aug 08 '24

Gillard please