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Was a Australian prime minister ever been killed?

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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.

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