List of ALP federal leaders by time served
- "ALP", as used on this page, refers to the Australian Labor Party. For other uses of the abbreviation "ALP", see ALP (disambiguation)
This is a list of the federal leaders of the Australian Labor Party by time served:
- Gough Whitlam 10y 10m 14d (8 February 1967 – 22 December 1977)
- John Curtin 9y 9m 4d (1 October 1935 – 5 July 1945) Died in office
- Bob Hawke 8y 10m 17d (3 February 1983 – 20 December 1991)
- Dr Herbert Vere "Bert" Evatt 8y 7m 27d (13 June 1951 – 9 February 1960)
- Andrew Fisher 8y (October 1907 – 27 October 1915)
- Kim Beazley 7y 6m 9d; see separate terms below
- James Scullin 7y 5m 5d (26 April 1928 – 1 October 1935)
- Arthur Calwell 6y 11m 1d (7 March 1960 – 8 February 1967)
- Chris Watson 6y 7m (May 1901 – October 1907)
- Matthew Charlton 5y 10m 13d (16 May 1922 – 29 March 1928)
- Ben Chifley 5y 11m (13 July 1945 – 13 June 1951)
- Kim Beazley (1st time) 5y 8m 3d (19 March 1996 – 22 November 2001)
- Frank Tudor 5y 1m 27d (14 November 1916 – 10 January 1922) Died in office
- Bill Hayden 5y 1m 12d (22 December 1977 – 3 February 1983)
- Paul Keating 4y 2m 22d (20 December 1991 – 11 March 1996)
- Kevin Rudd 3y 8m 37d; see separate terms below
- Kevin Rudd (1st time) 3y 6m 20d (4 December 2006 – 24 June 2010)
- Julia Gillard 3y 3d (24 June 2010 – 26 June 2013)
- Simon Crean 2y 10d (22 November 2001 – 2 December 2003)
- Kim Beazley (2nd time) 1y 10m 6d (28 January 2005 – 4 December 2006)
- Bill Shorten (incumbent) 1 year, 6 months and 2 days (as of 15 April 2015) (13 October 2013 – present)
- Mark Latham 1y 1m 26d (2 December 2003 – 28 January 2005)
- Billy Hughes 1y 1m 17d (27 October 1915 – 14 November 1916)
- Kevin Rudd (2nd time) 0y 2m 17d (26 June 2013 – 13 September 2013)
