About this site
The National Archives Australia’s Prime Ministers website seeks to:
- enhance understanding of Australia’s national leadership and political history
- provide a view of our political history from the top – through the documents dealt with by each of the 29 prime ministers
- enable users to explore significant and original documents – many are available online
- make original records accessible through a portal to archives and libraries in Australia and overseas.
The website is a ‘shop window’ of information, and features digitised documents from the National Archives holdings.
This website is a reference for Australia’s political history. You can:
- look at the evidence in the original documents
- check the facts
- discover some intriguing stories
- find collections with original material for each prime minister.
Australia’s Prime Ministers was updated and upgraded with the support of the Australian Prime Ministers Centre, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House.