Prime Ministers of Australia (Mercbl)

This is a list of the Prime Ministers of Australia in the Mercbl scenario.

This is not intended to be entirely realistic, nor a reflection of my own political views.

30. Member for Cook: Scott Morrison-Liberal (2018-2022)
2018: Scott Morrison became Prime Minister of Australia in August 2018 following the ousting of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in a successful leadership spill.

2019: Scott Morrison won the 2019 election with 77 seats in the Australian House of Representatives, despite most sources predicting his loss.

2020: The disastrous 2019-20 bushfire season brought much criticism upon Scott Morrison from the public and media, for his lack of action, seeming lack of compassion for victims and decision to go on holiday during the crisis. 2020 also saw the global COVID-19 pandemic. Australia was much less impacted by the pandemic than many other developed nations (though not compared to neighbouring New Zealand), though in some cases this was attributed to the work of the state premiers, rather than the federal government.

2021: The COVID-19 pandemic continued into 2021, though some hope came in the form of the beginning of the vaccine rollout globally. Australia's rather slow vaccine rollout brought criticism upon Morrison, who defended himself saying that it was public reluctance, rather than government mismanagement that was causing the delay.

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31. Member for Grayndler: Anthony Albanese-Labor (2022-2025)
2022: Prime Minister Albanese and the ALP won a close election in July 2022 against incumbent Prime Minister, Scott Morrison and a Liberal/National Coalition government. While the 2022 election did see some loss of Labor support in Victoria, costing Albanese some seats in the state, gains made by the party in Queensland and especially Western Australia more than made up for it, winning 81 seats in the House of Representatives. Following the election, Albanese saw new legislation passed in the latter half of 2022, including the reintroduction of Australia's carbon pricing scheme in October and the establishment of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC).

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32. Member for Kooyong: Josh Frydenberg-Liberal (2025-2027)
2025: Josh Frydenberg won the 2025 election to form a minority government of just 75 seats in the House of Representatives forcing him to form a coalition with the support of Robbie Katter. Hunt was able to form this government due to Labor's support in the states of Queensland and New South Wales lowering from the level they enjoyed in 2022.

2026: Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Australia held a second referendum on whether it should remain a monarchy. This referendum was successful with 59.6% of the public voting for the republic and with the majority in every state other than Queensland.

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33. Member for Hindmarsh: Mark Butler-Labor (2027-2033)
2028: Prime Minister Mark Butler won the election of 2028 due to a stagnant economy & corruption scandals during the Prime Ministership of Greg Hunt. Butler won the most seats of any government in the House of Representatives since 1996 with a total of 91.

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34. Member for Mitchell: Alex Hawke-Liberal (2033-2039)
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35. Member for Hasluck: Jonathan Gillam-Labor (2039-2060)
2039: Jonathan Gillam became leader of the Australian Labor Party following the resignation of Mark Butler after his defeat at the hands of Alex Hawke in 2037 election. Gillam then won the 2039 election at the age of just 34, becoming the youngest Prime Minister in Australian history. However, Labor fell one seat short of a majority in the House of Representatives, so the ALP entered into a coalition government with the Centre Alliance, a move that greatly angered the Australian Greens, however this allowed Gillam to forge stronger ties with the Centre Alliance, while also crushing claims that Labor was too closely aligned with the Greens. Also, as the Greens continued to vote with Labor on the majority of bills due to their ideological similarities, it is generally considered that this was a good move.

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2042: In April 2042, the Second Great Depression began, a crisis that Gillam managed to mostly keep Australia out of through a multitude of sound fiscal policies.

Gillam successfully managed to get 3 amendments passed in the 2046 referendum; making all electoral divisions in the House of Representatives multimember districts with 3 representatives each; changing the rules for election to the senate, so that senators are elected by the entirety of Australia, rather than by individual states; and removing the power of the Prime Minister to call elections, with federal elections now held once every 3 years on the first Saturday of May. The first election to be held according to the schedule laid out by this amendment would be the 2045 election.

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2044: 2044 saw the rise of the Liberation Front of New Guinea against the Indonesian government in the Indonesian Civil War. Prime Minister Gillam declared support for the rebel group and led Australia to war against Indonesia, starting in May 2044. In October

2045: Australia's involvement in the Indonesian Civil War ended with an independent New Guinea and Kabaruang Island leased to Australia in June 2045.

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2048: Following a number of meetings between Gillam and New Zealand Prime Minister Luna King discussing the possibility of union, spurred on by the extremely weak New Zealand economy, compared to Australia, due to the Second Great Depression, and following Prime Minister Gillam's assurances that the Treaty of Waitangi would be respected, Prime Minister King announced that New Zealand would hold a referendum on joining Australia on the 25th of April 2048. During the campaign, both Gillam and King publicly endorsed the 'Yes' campaign. This referendum passed with 61.1% of the popular vote, and on the 1st of June, New Zealand was admitted into Australia as its 7th state.

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36. Member for Bendigo: Claire Moore-Labor (2060-2063)
2060: Following the announcement of Prime Minister Gillam’s decision to resign from politics, a fierce battle for the leadership of the Labor Party began between Claire Moore, his Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, and Attorney-General Pearce Smith. This contest was won by Moore who went on to face a splintered opposition in the 2060 election, winning a total of 318 seats in the House of Representatives.

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37. Member for Rudd: Jaffar Hajar-Worker's Liberal (Right Coalition) (2063-2069)
2063: Despite being unsuccessful in his efforts to unite the Australian conservatives into a single party after the collapse of the Liberal party, Hajar successfully made the newly formed Worker's Liberal Party Australia's second largest political party, with 158 of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives in the 2063 election. He was then able to make himself Prime Minister by creating a coalition with 4 other right and centre-right parties, forming the "Right Coalition". This marked the first time since 2039 that the ALP was not in power federally, and made Hajar Australia’s first Muslim Prime Minister. Hajar ran as a socially conservative populist candidate who promised large tax cuts for small businesses and individuals.

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2066: With stagnant economic conditions, the Right Coalition lost a number of seats in the House in the 2066 election. Shortly after the election, the biofuel crisis and 2066-2070 recession began. These crises hit Australia hard, a fact that many have blamed the leadership of Hajar for.

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2069: With his approval rating at just 12%, Hajar announced his intention to resign as Prime Minister and Leader of the Worker's Liberal Party on the 3rd of March 2069. Following the subsequent election of Carl Swain as the leader of the Worker's Liberal Party, Hajar resigned on the 11th of March 2069.

38. Member for Braddon: Carl Swain-Worker's Liberal (Right Coalition) (2069)
2069: As Jaffar Hajar’s approval ratings plummeted due to his mishandling of the biofuel crisis and subsequent 2066-2070 recession, many members of the Worker's Liberal Party came to the conclusion that a new leader would be necessary if they were to have any chance in the 2067 election. Following Hajar's announcement that he would resign as the party’s leader, only 1 prominent candidate to replace him became apparent, that being his minister for Foreign Affairs, Carl Swain. Swain won the ballot, becoming Australia’s 38th Prime Minister for just 11 hours before the Worker's Liberal Party were ousted as leaders of the Right Coalition. This is the shortest term of any Australian Prime Minister

39. Senator from Queensland: Miranda Styman-United Queensland (Right Coalition) (2069)
2069: Styman shocked many when she managed to unite the parties of the Right Coalition behind her United Queensland party, as it was both a regionalist party and only the 3rd largest party in the Right Coalition. however, as it had moderate views on most issues, it did not alienate any of the other parties, and Styman's past critisism of Jaffar Hajar was seen as a way to distance the parties of the Right Coalition from his deeply unpopular Prime Ministership. Styman was the first senator since John Gorton in 1968 to be Prime Minister, the first former Premier since Joseph Lyons in 1939, and at the age of 70, was the oldest ever Prime Minister at the start of their term. She held the position for under 2 months before the landslide victory of Madison DeWitte in the 2069 election and is generally considered no more than a caretaker Prime Minister.

40. Member for Sturt: Madison Dewitte-Labor (2069-2075)
2069: Madison DeWitte led the Labor party to victory in the 2069 election in the midst of the 2066-2070 recession

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41. Member for Curtin: Melanie Cadiz-Libertarian (Right Coalition) (2075-2081)
2075: Melanie Cadiz lead the newly formed Australian Libertarian Party to victory in the 2073 election, as the head of the Right Coalition, defeating the incumbent Prime Minister Dewitte with a mix of economic conservatism and some elements of Flux ideology, but left behind the social conservatism of the disastrous Country Liberal Party in favour of a more “hands off” approach to social and cultural issues.

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43. Member for Savage: Andrew McCoy-National (Right Coalition) (2087-2090)
2087: Andrew McCoy led the Right Coalition to victory as the leader of the National Party of Australia and New Zealand. McCoy would become the first Australian Prime Minister from an New Zealand electorate.

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46. Member for Hotham: Nigel Douglas-Labor (2096-2099)
2096: Having successfully managed to retain leadership of the ALP after both the 2087 and 2093 elections, Nigel Douglas became the third person, and the first since Andrew Fisher in 1915 to serve 3 terms as Prime Minister after defeating Iván Flynn in the 2096 election.

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54. Member for Herbert: Andrew Cullins III-Australian Democrat (Right Coalition) (2114-)
2116: Former Australian Army general Andrew Cullins formed the right-wing conservative Australian Democratic Party in 2108 and lead his party to victory as the leader of the Right Coalition in the 2116 election. During Cullins' leadership of the Right Coalition, the number of parties in the Right Coalition significantly dropped, with most state level parties in the coalition merging with federal parties, and significant mergers of even federal parties such as the merging of the Libertarian Party and the Taxpayer's Alliance.

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