Chart: How many days have our recent Prime Ministers been in office?

Australia's last six prime ministers. (Photos: AAP)

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Australia, notorious for being dubbed the ‘coup capital of the world’, will get its sixth change of Prime Minister in the span of a decade if Labor wins the 2019 federal election.

Four of them have been the direct result of political coups on both sides of politics.

Ever since the “Kevin ‘07” campaign saw Kevin Rudd triumph over then-incumbent Prime Minister John Howard, Australia has ploughed through Prime Ministers.

Kevin Rudd lasted 934 days in office – or two and a half years – before his deputy, Julia Gillard, challenged him for the leadership of the Labor Party on 24 June 2010.

When it was clear Rudd would not have the numbers to secure a majority of the vote, he chose to resign, and Gillard was sworn in soon after that.

But that wasn’t the last we’d seen of Rudd. Almost exactly three years later, on 26 June 2013, Rudd wrested the leadership from Gillard after it was clear that the Labor was performing poorly in opinion polls.

By then, the Australian public had was losing faith in the Labor party as a whole. Rudd lasted a mere 83 days in the top job before the opposition leader, Tony Abbott, won the 2013 federal election, delivering a victory for the Liberal party.

It wasn’t long before Abbott proved to be an unpopular leader among the Australian public. And as the 2016 federal election loomed closer, the Liberal party was becoming anxious about delivering a landslide win to Labor if Abbott was at the helm of the election campaign.

So Abbott, who had served as Prime Minister for 727 days, was forced to hand his keys to the Lodge to Malcolm Turnbull on 17 November 2015 after the latter won a snap Liberal party ballot.

But Turnbull, who had deposed Abbott to govern the country, would be the subject of what he called “right-wing insurgency”.

Home affairs minister and conservative Peter Dutton had instigated the coup, but couldn’t actually curry enough votes to win the leadership ballot – neither could long-time and loyal Liberal party deputy leader Julie Bishop.

On 24 August last year, then-Treasurer, Scott Morrison emerged as the new prime minister of Australia.

But as Australia heads to the polls on Saturday, it could be his last day in the job.

Here’s a look at BBC’s chart on how long Australia’s last seven prime ministers have been in office:

'Australia's hotseat': A look at how many days the last seven Prime Ministers of Australia have been in power. (Source: BBC)

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