This popular book is now in its third edition. Covering each of Australia's prime ministers from Edmund Barton the prime minister at Federation in 1901 to Kevin Rudd it gives detailed personal and career information. There is one prime minister to a page with an illustration of each as well as a postage stamp for the prime ministers from Barton to Menzies. Each entry describes an interesting facet of his career or something he achieved in his time as prime minister. The summary at the end explains in simple language what a prime minister does how parliament works in Australia and how laws are made plus interesting facts about the old and new Parliament Houses in Canberra.