Prime Ministry

1. Edmund Barton
   
2. Alfred Deakin
   
3. Chris Watson
   
4. George Reid
   
5. Andrew Fisher
   
6. Joseph Cook
   
7. Billy Hughes
   
8. Stanley Bruce
   
9. James Scullin
   
10. Joseph Lyons
    
11. Earle Page
    
12. Robert Menzies
    
13. Arthur Fadden
    
14. John Curtin
    
15. Francis Forde
    
16. Ben Chifley
    
17. Harold Holt
    
18. John McEwan
    
19. John Gorton
    
20. William McMahon
    
21. Gough Whitlam
    
22. Malcolm Fraser
    
23. Bob Hawke
    
24. Paul Keating
    
25. John Howard
    
26. ?
    

My list of all the Australian leaders since federation is this side of idiosyncratic, as is my wont. If you want a more conventional listing and biography, there are plenty of sites. Type in 'australian prime ministers' and you're away.

A couple of notes however: I have omitted knighthoods since a quick scan down the list reveals just how arbitrary these are. The very average Billy McMahon received a knighthood but Fraser, who has busied himself with high level charity work in his later years, has not. And Labor leaders, working class heroes to many, traditionally eschew royal patronage. Then, too, there are a number of instances in which a Prime Minister gets a second bite at the cherry after someone else has filled the role in the intervening years, making the chronological ordering misleading.

And I doubt anyone can get away with mentioning the Australian nation without giving the obligatory nod to Henry Parkes.