No Australian Prime Minister has been assassinated or murdered. Harold Holt (former prime Minister in 1966-67) went missing when he went swimming off the notorious southern Victoria coast, and has never been found. He was presumed dead two days after he disappeared.
As of 2011, no. No Australian Prime Minister has been threatened in such a manner.
Yes. The Prime Minister of Australia is the head of government in Australia. The current prime minister in 2015 is Tony Abbott.
Never. No Australian Prime Minister has ever been assassinated
If you mean the Prime Minister of Australia, then yes, he is Australian and has been from birth.
Joseph Lyons was born in Stanley. He has been Australia's only Tasmanian-born Prime Minister to date.
Spencer Perceval is the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated, he was shot in 1820.
There has been no Australian Prime Minister by the name of John Hawke. Robert 'Bob' Hawke was Prime Minister of Australia from 5 March 1983 until 20 December 1991.
The Prime Minister must be an Australian citizen, but he does not have to have been born in Australia. Joseph Cook and Billy hughes, for example, were born in England.
John Howard, former Prime Minister of Australia, has not been killed. He is alive and well.
In February and March 2012, former Australian Prime Minister and then Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd dominated the headlines.As of March, he is now just a backbencher.
One Australian Prime Minister was killed as a result of a swimming accident and two died natural deaths none of them died as a result of violence or political upheaval. Harold Holt Who disappeared while swimming off Cheviot Beach in 1967. John Curtin in 1945. And Joseph Lyons 1939.
There have been 27 Australian Prime minesters...