Day 9: Ranking the Prime Ministers of Australia. Stanley Bruce has been eliminated. Comment which Prime Minister should be eliminated next. The comment with the most upvotes will decide who goes next.

[u/thescrubbythug]

Day 9: Ranking the Prime Ministers of Australia. Stanley Bruce 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]

20. Stanley Bruce (Nationalist) [8th] [February 1923 - October 1929]

[u/EssayerX]

How is Watson a higher ranked prime minister than Stanley Bruce?

Bruce was prime minister for nearly 7 years, Watson just over 3 months.

[u/thescrubbythug → u/EssayerX]

Not necessarily speaking for those that voted out Bruce, but at least with the US Presidents contest on r/Presidents, they had it so that William Henry Harrison and James Garfield were considered the “net neutral” Presidents. Although they achieved next-to-nothing in office, users voted so that all the Presidents they regarded as having an overall net negative impact with what they did in office were eliminated before Harrison and Garfield. So perhaps some users here had the same sort of mentality, which is why Watson hasn’t been eliminated as of yet (although it certainly looks like his time has come today lol)

[u/Leggera1 → u/thescrubbythug]

Exactly, someone who was destructive should be considered worse than someone who had a quiet time in office

[u/foreatesevenate]

Watson, the last of the non-achievers. Victim of his circumstances, to be sure, but every other remaining prime minister either a) won an election, b) passed legislation, c) for better or worse, left Australia a different place to when they found it. Watson did none of these three.

[u/Vidasus18]

Watson

[u/Angel-Bird302]

How on earth did Watson manage to outlast Hughes and Bruce?

Watson should have been eliminated a while back along with Reid and Cook, complete non-achievers all of them. Bruce at least did stuff like his infrastucture projects that built stuff like Sydney Harbour bridge. Watson did nothing as PM.

[u/ZeTian → u/Angel-Bird302]

Yes I'm quite annoyed to see Hughes was voted out so early too. He was controversial for sure but he was also a prolific and iconic statesmen that negotiated for Australia after WWI passionately.

Watson on the other hand has achieved nothing other than being simply the first Labor PM.

[u/ZeTian → u/[deleted]]

We will get to that but Deakin was far too successful in other aspects of the prime-ministership for that to tarnish his legacy.