You can find out more about Australia’s prime ministers, their lives and achievements at these websites:

• Australia’s Prime Ministers
• National Museum of Australia
• Prime Minister of Australia

You can also find out about Australia’s Parliament at the Parliament of Australia website

Find records

Official and personal records of Australia’s prime ministers are held in numerous archives, libraries, museums, universities and schools both in Australia and overseas. This includes manuscript material such as diaries, speeches, records relating to their electorate, photographs, files about significant issues, newspaper clippings, press releases and correspondence.

National collections

• ANU Archives and Noel Butlin Archives Centre online guide
• National Archives of Australia RecordSearch database
• National Film and Sound Archive audio-visual material
• National Library of Australia manuscript catalogue

Prime ministerial libraries

• Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library, Deakin University
• Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, University of South Australia
• John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Curtin University of Technology
• Malcolm Fraser collection, University of Melbourne
• Whitlam Institute, University of Western Sydney

Former homes of prime ministers open to the public

• Chifley Home (Bathurst, NSW)
• Curtin Family Home (Perth, WA)
• Home Hill (Lyons family, Devonport, Tas)
• Andrew Fisher House (Gympie, Qld)