Editing Joseph Lyons (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:EnidJoseph.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Enid and Joseph Lyons]]
Lyons was one of the most genuinely popular men to hold the office of prime minister, and his death caused widespread grief.<ref name=naaio>{{cite web |title=Joseph Lyons, in office |work=Australia's Prime Ministers |publisher=[[National Archives of Australia]] |url=http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/lyons/in-office.aspx |access-date=13 January 2008 |archive-date=26 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926155621/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/lyons/in-office.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> His genial, laid-back appearance often led to his portrayal in cartoons as a sleepy [[koala]].<ref name=adb/> A devout Catholic, he was the second Catholic to become prime minister, after his immediate predecessor Scullin, and the only non-Labor Catholic prime minister until [[Tony Abbott]].

Lyons is the only person in Australian history to have been prime minister, [[Premiers of the Australian states|premier]] of a state, treasurer and [[List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition|leader of the opposition]] in both the Federal Parliament and a state parliament (although [[George Reid]] had been premier of a colony before Federation). Lyons is also the only prime minister to have come from Tasmania. At the time of his death, he was the second-longest serving prime minister in Australia's history, behind only Hughes.