List of nicknames of prime ministers of Australia

This is a list of nicknames of prime ministers of Australia.

Edmund Barton
Full name: Edmund Barton
 * Toby Tosspot

Alfred Deakin
Full name: Alfred Deakin
 * Affable Alfred

Chris Watson
Full name: John Christian Watson

George Reid
Full name: George Houston Reid
 * Yes-No Reid in reference a long speech where he was unwilling to take a clear position on federation.

Andrew Fisher
Full name:Andrew Fisher

Joseph Cook
Full name: Joseph Cook

Billy Hughes
Full name: William Morris Hughes
 * The Little Digger
 * The Rat Due to his support for conscription & defection from the Labor Party to the Liberal Party

Stanley Bruce
Full name: Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne

James Scullin
Full name: James Henry Scullin

Joseph Lyons
Full name: Joseph Aloysius Lyons
 * Honest Joe

Earle Page
Full name: Earle Christmas Grafton Page

Robert Menzies
Full name: Robert Gordon Menzies
 * Ming the Merciless
 * Pig iron Bob

Arthur Fadden
Full name: Arthur William Fadden
 * Artie

John Curtin
Full name: John Joseph Ambrose Curtin
 * Bumble

Frank Forde
Full name: Francis Michael Forde

Ben Chifley
Full name: Joseph Benedict Chifley

Harold Holt
Full name: Harold Edward Holt

John McEwen
Full name: John McEwen
 * Black Jack

John Gorton
Full name: John Grey Gorton
 * Jolly John

William McMahon
Full name: William McMahon
 * Billy the Leak
 * Billy Liar
 * Billy Big Ears

Gough Whitlam
Full name: Edward Gough Whitlam
 * The Young Brolga
 * Goughie

Malcolm Fraser
Full name: John Malcolm Fraser


 * The Prefect

Bob Hawke
Full name: Robert James Lee Hawke
 * The Silver Bodgie
 * Little Caesar

Paul Keating
Full name: Paul John Keating


 * The Mortician
 * The Lizard of Oz

John Howard
Full name: John Winston Howard
 * Honest John
 * Little Johnnie Howard

Kevin Rudd
Full name: Kevin Michael Rudd
 * Kevin07 his campaign slogan for the 2007 election
 * Krudd, a contraction of his name
 * Milky Bar Kid in his likeness to Nestlé Milky Bar Kid
 * Rudd the Dudd

Julia Gillard
Full name: Julia Eileen Gillard
 * Ju-liar part of a campaign of character assassination led by Alan Jones

Tony Abbott
Full name: Anthony John Abbott
 * Mad monk

Malcolm Turnbull
Full name: Malcolm Bligh Turnbull
 * Mr Harbourside Mansion
 * Turncoat

Scott Morrison
Full name: Scott John Morrison


 * ScoMo
 * Scummo as a further iteration of ScoMo.
 * Liar from the Shire
 * Scotty from Marketing became a common nickname due to Morrison's perceived poor response to the 2019 Australian bushfires. It originated in an article on satirical web site The Betoota Advocate during the bushfires.  The name is still used frequently, and refers to Morrison's previous roles as managing director of Tourism Australia from 2004 to 2006 and as the inaugural Director of the New Zealand Office of Tourism and Sport from 1998 to 2000.

Anthony Albanese
Full name: Anthony Norman Albanese


 * Albo
 * Airbus Albo, due to his perceived propensity for overseas junketing.
 * AnAl, contracting first and last names in the same manner as "ScoMo".
 * Morrison-lite
 * OverEasy Albanese