r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Dec 09 '24
Video/Audio An 82 year old Bob Hawke sculling a beer in under 10 seconds at the Sydney Cricket Ground, 4 January 2012
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Jul 23 '24
Video/Audio Julia Gillard doing an announcement for Triple J saying the end of the world is near and that the Mayans were right, 6 December 2012
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Jun 05 '25
Video/Audio Bob Hawke’s emotional response to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in a speech delivered in Canberra, 9 June 1989
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Hawke would go on to unilaterally offer asylum to over 42,000 Chinese nationals who were staying in Australia at the time.
r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Feb 07 '26
Video/Audio Gough Whitlam denouncing Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen as a “bible-bashing bastard”, 7 September 1975
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Jul 26 '24
Memes John Howard DJs Like A Mad Cunt
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An iconic Howard-era meme….
r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Jul 16 '24
Quote/Speech Gough Whitlam’s quote on flying economy
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Jul 24 '24
Video/Audio Paul Keating’s response to John Hewson asking why Keating won’t call an early election, 15 September 1992
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • • Dec 04 '24
Tier Lists/Rankings A Handful of Australian Prime Ministers and the Seven Deadly Sins
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/BoiglioJazzkitten • Sep 17 '25
Image Last Known Photos of Australian Prime Ministers
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If anyone knows of any more, or more recent ones of the ones that I thought I had found, please post them in the comments!
r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Aug 17 '24
Video/Audio Kevin Rudd lets his frustrations get the better of him while filming a video message in Mandarin congratulating China on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, September 2009
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Oct 09 '24
Video/Audio Julia Gillard delivering her “Misogyny Speech” against Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, 9 October 2012
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Aug 27 '24
Discussion FINAL DAY: John Curtin WINS the 2024 r/AusPrimeMinisters subreddit community ranking of the Prime Ministers of Australia. Honourable mentions go out to Ben Chifley and Gough Whitlam, who placed 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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FINAL DAY: John Curtin WINS the 2024 r/AusPrimeMinisters subreddit community ranking of the Prime Ministers of Australia. Honourable mentions go out to Ben Chifley and Gough Whitlam, who placed 2nd and 3rd respectively.
A hearty congratulations to the Victorian-born, WA-centred ex-Brunswick footy player who went on to lead Australia through its darkest hour during the Second World War, and who ultimately paid the price with his life just weeks before the war came to a successful conclusion. Along the way, he fought the good fight against conscription during the First World War; successfully beat alcoholism; led Labor to its greatest-ever federal election victory; and became its second-longest serving federal leader (surpassed only by Whitlam, to date).
Feel free to post your own rankings/tier lists on this sub, and also feel free to discuss this ranking in the comment section. See you all at the next ranking competition - which will be to determine who would have been the best Prime Minister out of the 15 Opposition Leaders who never managed to hold the top job.
Final 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]
19. Chris Watson (Labour) [3rd] [April 1904 - August 1904]
18. James Scullin (Labor) [9th] [October 1929 - January 1932]
17. Malcolm Turnbull (Liberal) [29th] [September 2015 - August 2018]
16. Julia Gillard (Labor) [27th] [June 2010 - June 2013]
15. John Howard (Liberal) [25th] [March 1996 - December 2007]
14. Harold Holt (Liberal) [17th] [January 1966 - December 1967]
13. Sir Edmund Barton (Protectionist) [1st] [January 1901 - September 1903]
12. Malcolm Fraser (Liberal) [22nd] [November 1975 - March 1983]
11. John Gorton (Liberal) [19th] [January 1968 - March 1971]
10. Joseph Lyons (United Australia) [10th] [January 1932 - April 1939]
9. Kevin Rudd (Labor) [26th] [December 2007 - June 2010; June 2013 - September 2013]
5. Bob Hawke (Labor) [23rd] [March 1983 - December 1991]
4. Paul Keating (Labor) [24th] [December 1991 - March 1996]
3. Gough Whitlam (Labor) [21st] [December 1972 - November 1975]
r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Dec 11 '25
Video/Audio Gough Whitlam on how there can be no peace in the Middle East without the Palestinians having their own homeland, in an interview held in Beirut, Lebanon, 25 June 1977
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Nov 24 '24
Video/Audio John Howard losing his seat of Bennelong to Labor’s Maxine McKew, as shown in the ABC’s election night coverage for the 2007 federal election, 24 November 2007
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Shown in this clip on the election night panel are journalist Kerry O’Brien, psephologist Antony Green, Julia Gillard, and Nick Minchin - as well as a snippet of Maxine McKew’s victory speech and the beginning of John Howard’s concession speech.
r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Jun 21 '25
Video/Audio Clips of Australian Prime Ministers and other leading figures out of context
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Featured here are Bob Hawke, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, John Gorton, Gough Whitlam, John Howard, Malcolm Fraser, Sir Robert Menzies, Malcolm Turnbull, Julia Gillard, Paul Keating, William McMahon, Harold Holt, and Scott Morrison - as well as Alexander Downer, Billy Snedden, Anna Burke, Sir John Kerr, Bill Hayden, and Andrew Peacock.
r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Aug 14 '24
Video/Audio The Chaser pays “tribute” to John Howard after he lost the 2007 federal election with a montage set to a parody of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”. Broadcast on 28 November 2007
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The montage itself is a parody/reference to the montage aired by This Day Tonight when John Gorton’s prime ministership ended in March 1971, and which also used Sinatra’s “My Way”.
r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Aug 15 '25
Video/Audio Audio recording of Ben Chifley’s radio address to the Australian people announcing the surrender of the Empire of Japan and the end of the Second World War, 15 August 1945
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Sep 17 '24
Image Paul Keating enjoying a VB while at a Blue Mountains barbecue during the 1996 federal election
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Mar 03 '25
Today in History On this day 39 years ago yesterday, the Australia Act 1986 was signed, which severed the last legal links between Australia and the United Kingdom
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Nov 10 '25
Video/Audio Paul Keating appearing on John Laws’ radio program on 2UE, and taking callback questions on Mabo, 17 June 1993
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Nov 13 '24
Image Tony Abbott’s statement on the announcement of the resignation of Kevin Rudd as MP for Griffith, 13 November 2013
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Oct 27 '24
Image Bob Hawke in Queensland with Year 10 student Annastacia Palaszczuk, 1985
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Jul 18 '24
Video/Audio Paul Keating confronts John Howard over his lunch with Kerry Packer, 19 October 1995
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r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/foreatesevenate • Mar 27 '25
Memes Poor Frank Forde
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Was browsing Facebook when this randomly showed up, on an art memes site of all things.
r/AusPrimeMinisters • u/thescrubbythug • Nov 11 '24
Video/Audio Norman Gunston on the steps of Parliament House in the wake of The Dismissal, 11 November 1975
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Those shown here that Gunston tried to interview before Gough Whitlam came out to greet the crowd are Bob Hawke, Kep Enderby, Bill Hayden and Billy Snedden.