pm acts per day total acts days in office Julia Gillard 0.495 543 1098 Robert Hawke 0.491 1574 3206 Malcolm Fraser 0.481 1287 2677 Paul Keating 0.476 734 1543 Gough Whitlam 0.472 505 1071 John Howard 0.452 1936 4284 William McMahon 0.436 277 636 Kevin Rudd 0.374 349 934 John Gorton 0.334 386 1155 Harold Holt 0.314 217 692 Robert Menzies 0.274 1843 6738 Ben Chifley 0.248 402 1620 Joseph Lyons 0.192 509 2648 James Scullin 0.182 147 806 John Curtin 0.157 214 1367 Stanley Melbourne Bruce 0.118 289 2447 William Morris Hughes 0.113 301 2662 Andrew Fisher 0.113 198 1758 Alfred Deakin 0.073 129 1774 Joseph Cook 0.062 28 450 Chris Watson 0.062 7 113 Arthur Fadden 0.051 2 39 Edmund Barton 0.047 47 996 George Reid 0.025 8 321