List of Australian Opposition Leaders

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A name written in bold type indicates an Opposition Leader who later became Prime Minister.
An asterisk (*) indicates an Opposition Leader who had previously been Prime Minister.

Number	Name	Party	Term in Office
1.	George Reid	Free Trade Party	1901 - 1904
2.	Chris Watson	Australian Labor Party	1904 - 1905
-	George Reid*	Free Trade Party/Anti-Socialist Party	1905 - 1908
3.	Joseph Cook	Anti-Socialist Party	1908 - 1909
4.	Alfred Deakin	Commonwealth Liberal Party	1909
5.	Andrew Fisher*	Australian Labor Party	1909-1910
-	Alfred Deakin*	Commonwealth Liberal Party	1910-1913
-	Joseph Cook	Commonwealth Liberal Party	1913
-	Andrew Fisher*	Australian Labor Party	1913-1914
-	Joseph Cook*	Commonwealth Liberal Party/Nationalist Party of Australia	1914-1916
6.	Frank Tudor	Australian Labor Party	1916-1922
7.	Mathew Charlton	Australian Labor Party	1922-1928
8.	James Scullin	Australian Labor Party	1928-1929
9.	John Latham	Nationalist Party of Australia	1929-1931
10.	Joseph Lyons	United Australia Party	1931-1932
-	James Scullin*	Australian Labor Party	1932-1935
11.	John Curtin	Australian Labor Party	1935-1941
12.	Arthur Fadden*	Country Party	1941-1943
13.	Robert Menzies*	United Australia Party/Liberal Party of Australia	1943-1949
14.	Ben Chifley*	Australian Labor Party	1949-1951
15.	Dr H.V. Evatt	Australian Labor Party	1951-1960
16.	Arthur Calwell	Australian Labor Party	1960-1967
17.	Gough Whitlam	Australian Labor Party	1967-1972
18.	Billy Snedden	Liberal Party of Australia	1972-1975
19.	Malcolm Fraser	Liberal Party of Australia	1975
-	Gough Whitlam*[1]	Australian Labor Party	1976-1977
20.	Bill Hayden	Australian Labor Party	1977-1983
21.	Bob Hawke	Australian Labor Party	1983
22.	Andrew Peacock	Liberal Party of Australia	1983-1985
23.	John Howard	Liberal Party of Australia	1985-1989
-	Andrew Peacock	Liberal Party of Australia	1989-1990
24.	John Hewson	Liberal Party of Australia	1990-1994
25.	Alexander Downer	Liberal Party of Australia	1994-1995
-	John Howard	Liberal Party of Australia	1995-1996
26.	Kim Beazley	Australian Labor Party	1996-2001
27.	Simon Crean	Australian Labor Party	2001-2003
28.	Mark Latham	Australian Labor Party	2003-2005
-	Kim Beazley	Australian Labor Party	2005-2006
29.	Kevin Rudd	Australian Labor Party	2006-present

1. ^ Note that Gough Whitlam refused to use the title Leader of the Opposition between the dismissal of his government in November 1975 and the first meeting of the new parliament in February 1976. During the December 1975 election campaign he styled himself "Leader of the Majority in the House of Representatives."