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==Honours==
Prime ministers have been granted numerous honours, typically after their period as prime minister has concluded, with a few exceptions.

Nine former prime ministers were awarded knighthoods: Barton ([[Order of St Michael and St George|GCMG]], 1902),<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27448 |date=26 June 1902 |supp=y |pages=4189–4196 }}</ref> Reid (GCMG, 1911),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1073781|title=GCMG|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> Cook (GCMG, 1918),<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30831 |supp=y|page=9264|date=6 August 1918}}</ref> Page (GCMG, 1938),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1073808|title=GCMG|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> Menzies ([[Order of the Thistle|KT]], 1963),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1083809|title=KT|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> Fadden (KCMG, 1951),<ref>[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1082573 It's an Honour - Fadden KCMG] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222204621/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1082573 |date=22 February 2019}}</ref> McEwen (GCMG, 1971),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1073782|title=GCMG|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> Gorton (GCMG, 1977),<ref>[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1073778 It's an Honour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222042052/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1073778 |date=22 February 2019 }} – Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George</ref> and McMahon (GCMG, 1977).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1073780 |title=It's an Honour – GCMG |website=Itsanhonour.gov.au |date=12 June 1977 |access-date=25 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224001650/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1073780 |archive-date=24 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Of those awarded, Barton and Menzies were knighted while still serving as prime minister, with Page awarded his before becoming prime minister, and the remainder awarded after leaving office. Reid ([[Order of the Bath|GCB]], 1916),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1073775|title=GCB|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> Menzies ([[Knight of the Order of Australia|AK]], 1976)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/884342|title=AK|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> and Fadden (GCMG, 1958)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1073792|title=GCMG|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> were awarded a second knighthood after leaving office.

Non-titular honours were also bestowed on former prime ministers, usually the [[Order of the Companions of Honour]]. This honour was awarded to Bruce (1927),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065984|title=CH|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> Lyons (1936),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065987|title= Mr Joseph Aloysius LYONS|work=It's An Honour|publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref> Hughes (1941),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065980 |title=It's an Honour |access-date=4 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224001747/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065980 |archive-date=24 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Page (1942),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065988|title=It's an Honour – CH|publisher=Itsanhonour.gov.au|date=26 June 1942|access-date=4 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223074136/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065988|archive-date=23 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Menzies (1951),<ref>{{cite web |title=It's an Honour: CH |publisher=Australian Government |access-date=15 October 2009 |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065985 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222042056/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065985 |archive-date=22 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Holt (1967),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065981|title=CH|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> McEwen (1969),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065979|title=CH|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> Gorton (1971),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1073778|title=CH|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> McMahon (1972),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065991|title=CH|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> and Fraser (1977),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1065990|title=CH|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> mostly during office as prime minister.

In almost all occasions these honours were only accepted by non-Labor/conservative prime ministers. However, appointment to the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom]] was accepted by all prime ministers until 1983 (with the exception of Alfred Deakin, Chris Watson and Gough Whitlam), with Malcolm Fraser being the last prime ministerial appointee.

Since its introduction in 1975, former prime ministers of Australia have been appointed to the [[Order of Australia]] and to its highest level – Companion: Whitlam (1978),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/884426|title=AC|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> Fraser (1988),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/884375|title=AC|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> Gorton (1988),<ref>[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/884482 It's an Honour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129124645/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/884482 |date=29 January 2019 }} – Companion of the Order of Australia</ref> Howard (2008),<ref>{{Citation |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1138585 |title=It's an Honour: AC |publisher=Australian Government |date=9 June 2008 |access-date=20 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129181320/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1138585 |archive-date=29 January 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Gillard (2017),<ref>{{Citation|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1154582 |title=It's an Honour: AC |work=Itsanhonour.gov.au |publisher=Government of Australia |date=26 January 2017 |access-date=26 January 2017}}</ref> Rudd (2019),<ref>{{cite web|url= https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2004929|title=AC|publisher=Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> Abbott (2020),<ref>{{Citation|title=Queen's Birthday Honours 2020|publisher=Governor General|url=https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-06/QB2020%20Gazette%20-%20O%20of%20A.PDF|access-date=7 June 2020}}</ref> and Turnbull (2021).<ref>{{Citation|title=Australia Day Honours 2021|publisher=Governor General|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2007752|access-date=29 January 2021}}</ref> Keating refused appointment in the 1997 Australia Day Honours, saying that he had long believed honours should be reserved for those whose work in the community went unrecognised and that having been Prime Minister was sufficient public recognition.<ref name=naa_afteroffice>{{cite web |title=After office |work=Australia's PMs&nbsp;– Paul Keating |publisher=National Archives of Australia |url=http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/keating/after-office.aspx |access-date = 15 July 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Keating: gone wrong |agency=[[The Sun-Herald]] |date=26 January 1997 |page=3}}</ref> Bob Hawke was appointed a Companion in 1979, for service to trade unionism and industrial relations, before becoming prime minister in 1983.<ref>{{cite web| title=It's an Honour| work=Government of Australia| url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/881975| access-date=3 September 2007| archive-date=29 January 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129123025/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/881975| url-status=live}}</ref> Menzies was appointed to the higher grade of Knight of the Order, which is no longer awarded, in 1976.

John Howard was also appointed to the [[Order of Merit]] in 2012, whose appointments are within the personal gift of the monarch.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60028|page=485|date=12 January 2012}}</ref> Menzies' [[Knight of the Order of the Thistle]] awarding was also in the personal gift of [[Queen Elizabeth II]] in 1963.

Although not strictly an honour, one former prime minister was raised to the peerage; Stanley Bruce was created 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37911 |date=21 March 1947 |page=1333 }}</ref> in the [[1947 New Year Honours]].

In addition to these honours, all deceased former prime ministers of Australia currently have federal electorates named after them.{{Efn|The [[Division of Cook]] jointly recognises former prime minister Sir Joseph Cook and explorer Sir [[James Cook]].<ref>{{Cite press release |title=Names and boundaries of federal electoral divisions in New South Wales decided |date=12 September 2024 |publisher=[[Australian Electoral Commission]] |url=https://www.aec.gov.au/media/2024/09-12.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240912094037/https://www.aec.gov.au/media/2024/09-12.htm |archive-date=12 September 2024}}</ref>}} The most newly created of these electorates is the [[Division of Hawke]], named in honour of the recently deceased Bob Hawke in 2021.