Talk:List of prime ministers of Australia

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Timeline graphic shows PaulKeating as Liberal.

He was Labor. Pretty important to get this stuff right I would suggest. 2001:8003:D4E6:2100:C47B:F33:767C:F50C (talk) 01:42, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

He's already shown as Labor, just search for his wikitext under the #Timeline section. —twotwofourtysix^{(My talk page and contributions)} 02:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger discussion

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The result of this discussion was to merge. Clear consensus, and considerable time elapsed. - GA Melbourne (talk) 03:40, 8 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As per Reywas92's comments at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of prime ministers of Australia/archive1, List of prime ministers of Australia (graphical), especially the Career-based timeline section, could be merged here. JML1148 (Talk | Contribs) 03:19, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with the merge and support boldness in doing so.Gusfriend (talk) 08:03, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I support it too it makes sense and thanks for doing so Friendlyhistorian (talk) 18:57, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I Agree with the merge, it makes sense - Yours Faithfully, GA Melbourne ( T | C ) 13:17, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support Idiosincrático (talk) 13:49, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support, this article is just an unnecessary content fork now. AryKun (talk) 16:04, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Term length

"Prime ministers do not have fixed terms, and generally serve the full length of their term ..." is fairly perplexing to a lay read. Could this be clarified? Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 03:45, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Images

Images of Prime Ministers - and other assorted politicians, I guess - have always been subject to personal opinion, with editors attempting to put leaders from their political tribe in a good light and those from the other side posed in awkward moments.

Good photographs that we can use on Wikipedia are hard to come by. Continually swapping around images of poor quality is not in the best interests of the project. We should aim to present every biographical subject in a good light, unless there is some good reason for showing them in an awkward or embarrassing image.

With Julia Gillard and Tony Abbot we are fortunate in that we have access to images using a suitable Creative Commons license, taken by a skilled photographer, and exposing aspects of their personality. Julia Gillard in particular, looks steely and determined, as opposed to her more cosy official portrait.

However, a very weak consensus agreed to use the official portrait on her page. I think that for articles like this, it is less disruptive to use an image that has consensus rather than edit-war over personal - and often partisan - preference. Regardless of how we might feel about these people, they have been heads of government and we should present them in a dignified and professional manner out of respect to the office and the nation.

Accordingly I have replaced the rather clownish image of Tony Abbott here with the one we use on his BLP. If anyone really thinks it is appropriate to use an awkward image for a formal listing of Australian PMs, perhaps they could explain what spurs their thinking? --Pete (talk) 01:00, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]