Incumbents

• Monarch
  Monarchy in Australia
  The Monarchy of Australia is a form of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign of Australia. The monarchy is a constitutional one modelled on the Westminster style of parliamentary government, incorporating features unique to the Constitution of Australia.The present monarch is...
  
   – King George V
  George V of the United Kingdom
  George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
  
  
• Governor-General
  Governor-General of Australia
  The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal/national level of the Australian monarch . He or she exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth...
  
   – John Baird, Baronet of Stonehaven
  John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven
  John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, GCMG, DSO, PC, JP, DL , known as Sir John Baird, Bt, between 1920 and 1925 and as The Lord Stonehaven between 1925 and 1928, was a British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth...
  
  
• Prime Minister of Australia
  Prime Minister of Australia
  The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...
  
  
• Premier of New South Wales – Thomas Bavin (until 4 November), then Jack Lang
  Jack Lang (Australian politician)
  John Thomas Lang , usually referred to as J.T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms...
  
  
• Premier of Queensland – Arthur Edward Moore
  Arthur Edward Moore
  Arthur Edward Moore, CMG was an Australian politician. He was the Country and Progressive National Party Premier of Queensland, from 1929 to 1932. He was the only Queensland Premier not to come from the ranks of the Labor Party between 1915 and 1957...
  
  
• Premier of South Australia – Richard Layton Butler
  Richard Layton Butler
  Sir Richard Layton Butler KCMG was the 31st Premier of South Australia, serving two disjunct terms in office: from 1927 to 1930, and again from 1933 to 1938....
  
   (until 17 April), then Lionel Hill
  Lionel Hill
  Lionel Laughton Hill was the thirtieth Premier of South Australia.Born in Adelaide, South Australia but raised on a farm near Maitland, Hill left school aged 12 to work on the South Australian government railways, where he first became involved in the labour movement...
  
  
• Premier of Tasmania – John McPhee
  John McPhee (Australian politician)
  Sir John Cameron McPhee, KCMG was an Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He was Premier of Tasmania from 15 June 1928 to 15 March 1934.-Early life:...
  
  
• Premier of Victoria – Edmond Hogan
  Edmond Hogan
  Edmond John "Ned" Hogan , Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria, was born in Wallace, Victoria, where his Irish-born parents were small farmers...
  
  
• Premier of Western Australia
  Premier of Western Australia
  The Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive government in the Australian State of Western Australia. The Premier has similar functions in Western Australia to those performed by the Prime Minister of Australia at the national level, subject to the different Constitutions...
  
   – Philip Collier
  Philip Collier
  Philip Collier was Premier of Western Australia for nine years, the longest ever term for an Australian Labor Party premier....
  
   (until 24 April), then Sir James Mitchell
  James Mitchell (Australian politician)
  Sir James Mitchell GCMG was the 13th Premier of Western Australia, serving on two occasions, the Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia for 15 years and the 22nd Governor of Western Australia....
  
  

State governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Sir Dudley de Chair
  Dudley de Chair
  Admiral Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair, KCB, KCMG, KBE, MVO was a Naval Officer and Governor. De Chair joined the Royal Navy from the age of 16 and served in the Anglo-Egyptian War and later as an Admiral in the First World War. He was appointed as Governor of New South Wales in 1923...
  
  
• Governor of Queensland – Sir John Goodwin
  John Goodwin (governor)
  Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin KCB, KCMG, DSO , known as Sir John Goodwin, was a British soldier and medical practitioner, who served as the Governor of the Australian state of Queensland between 1927 and 1932.Goodwin was born in 1871 in Kandy, Ceylon to a British Army...
  
  
• Governor of South Australia – Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven
  Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
  Brigadier General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie VC, GCMG, CB, DSO & Bar, PC was a British soldier and colonial governor and the tenth Governor-General of Australia. Serving for 9 years and 7 days, he is the longest serving Governor-General in Australia's history...
  
  
• Governor of Tasmania – Sir James O'Grady
  James O'Grady
  Sir James O'Grady, KCMG was a trade unionist and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the first colonial governor appointed by the Labour Party from within its own ranks.- Early life :...
  
  
• Governor of Victoria – Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers
  Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers
  Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, KCMG, DSO, MC , son of Herbert Haldane Somers-Cocks by Blanche Margaret Standish Clogstoun...
  
  
• Governor of Western Australia
  Governor of Western Australia
  The Governor of Western Australia is the representative in Western Australia of Australia's Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. The Governor performs important constitutional, ceremonial and community functions, including:* presiding over the Executive Council;...
  
   – Sir William Campion
  William Campion
  Colonel Sir William Robert Campion KCMG, DSO, TD, DL was a British politician and Governor of Western Australia from 1924 to 1931....
  
  

Events

• 11 November – The Shrine of Remembrance
  Shrine of Remembrance, Brisbane
  The Shrine of Remembrance is located in ANZAC Square, between Ann Street and Adelaide Street, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. With its 'Eternal Flame', the Shrine is a war memorial dedicated to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ....
  
   in Brisbane
  Brisbane
  Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
  
   is dedicated.

Sport

• 6 January – Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket
  Cricket
  Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
  
   innings.
• 25 January – Harry Hopman
  Harry Hopman
  Henry Christian Hopman, CBE was a world-acclaimed Australian-American tennis player and coach, born in Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, and soon moving to Parramatta, a city adjoining Sydney and now effectively a suburb of the metropolis.Hopman was a student at Rosehill Public Primary school...
  
   and Jack Crawford
  Jack Crawford (tennis player)
  ----John Herbert Crawford was an Australian tennis player of the 1930s. He was the World No. 1 player for 1933.Crawford was born in Urangeline, near Albury, New South Wales...
  
   win the Australian Doubles Championship
  Australian Open
  The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
  
   at Kooyong, Victoria
  Kooyong, Victoria
  Kooyong is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington. At the 2006 Census, Kooyong had a population of 781....
  
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• 4 November – Phar Lap
  Phar Lap
  Phar Lap was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse whose achievements captured the public's imagination during the early years of the Great Depression. Foaled in New Zealand, he was trained and raced in Australia. Phar Lap dominated Australian racing during a distinguished career, winning a Melbourne...
  
   wins the Melbourne Cup
  Melbourne Cup
  The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...
  
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Births

• 26 February – Lionel Cox
  Lionel Cox
  Lionel Malvyne Cox OAM was an Australian Olympic cyclist.-Results and awards:*1948 – 49 1st N.S.W. 1000 metre Sprint Title*1949 – 50 1st N.S.W...
  
  , track cyclist
• 29 March – John Marshall
  John Marshall (swimmer)
  John Birnie Marshall was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1940s and 1950s who won a silver and bronze medal in the 1500 m and 400 m freestyle respectively at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London...
  
  , freestyle swimmer (d. 1957)
• 16 May – Brian Davies, rugby league footballer of the 1940s, 50s and 60s
• 26 September – Brian Oliver
  Brian Oliver (athlete)
  Brian Thomas Oliver is a retired Olympic athlete from Australia. He specialised in the triple jump and long jump events during his career....
  
  , long and triple jumper

Deaths

• 18 January – Thorburn Robertson
  Thorburn Robertson
  Thorburn Brailsford Robertson was an Australian physiologist and biochemist.-Early life:Robertson was born in Edinburgh, the son of Thorburn Robertson and Sheila, daughter of William Brailsford. At eight years of age he was brought to South Australia, where his father had been appointed a mining...
  
   (b. 1884), physiologist and biochemist
• 19 March – Sir Henry Lefroy
  Henry Lefroy
  Sir Henry Bruce Lefroy KCMG was the eleventh Premier of Western Australia.-Biography:Lefroy was born in Perth, Western Australia on 24 March 1854. His father was Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, Colonial Treasurer of Western Australia for over 30 years...
  
   (b. 1854), Premier of Western Australia (1917–1919)
• 22 April – John Peter Russell
  John Peter Russell
  John Peter Russell was an Australian impressionist painter.-Life and work:John Peter Russell was born at the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, the eldest of four children of John Russell, a Scottish engineer, his wife Charlotte Elizabeth, née Nicholl, from London. J. P. Russell was a nephew of Sir...
  
   (b. 1858), Impressionist artist
• 21 May – Robert Cook
  Robert Cook (Australian politician)
  -Early life:Cook was born at Chiltern, Victoria to English splitter Henry Cook and his Irish wife Mary, née Wilkinson. He received little formal education and was soon a land-owner, owning land at Tallangatta and Porepunkah...
  
   (b. 1867), politician
• 27 May – William Jethro Brown
  William Jethro Brown
  William Jethro Brown was an Australian jurist and professor of law.-Early life:Brown was the son of James Brown, a farmer, and his wife Sophia Jane, née Torr, and was born at Mintaro, South Australia. Brown was educated at Stanley Grammar School, Watervale, South Australia, and taught for a while...
  
   (b. 1868), jurist and professor of law
• 20 August – Charles Bannerman
  Charles Bannerman
  Charles Bannerman was an Australian Test cricketer, a right-hand batsman, who played domestic cricket for New South Wales....
  
   (b. 1851), cricketer
• 6 September – Archibald Strong
  Archibald Strong
  Archibald Thomas Strong was an Australian scholar and poet.-Early life:Strong was born at South Yarra, Melbourne, the son of Professor Herbert Strong, professor of classics at the University of Melbourne, and his wife Helen Campbell, née Edmiston.Strong and his family moved to Liverpool, England...
  
   (b. 1876), poet
• 11 September – William Carpenter
  William Carpenter (Australian politician)
  William Henry Carpenter was an Australian politician. He held seats in three parliaments: the South Australian Legislative Assembly, the Australian House of Representatives and the Western Australian Legislative Assembly....
  
   (b. 1863), politician
• 1 October – Albert Henry Fullwood
  Albert Henry Fullwood
  Albert Henry Fullwood was the Australian official war artist to the 5th Division in the First World War.Fullwood was born in Erdington, Birmingham, son of Frederick John Fullwood, jeweller, and his wife Emma, née Barr. From 1878, Fullwood studied art at evening classes at the Birmingham Institute...
  
   (b. 1863), artist
• 1 October – Sir James Whiteside McCay
  James Whiteside McCay
  Lieutenant General Sir James Whiteside McCay KCMG, KBE, CB, VD was an Australian general and politician. A graduate of the University of Melbourne, where he earned Master of Arts and Master of Laws degrees, he established a successful legal practice, McCay & Thwaites...
  
   (b. 1864), Australian Army soldier
• 30 October – John Creed
  John Creed
  John Mildred Creed was an English-born Australian doctor and politician.Creed was born at Ashbrook , near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England and educated at Cowley, Gloucestershire and Kingsdown College, Bristol. He migrated with his family to Melbourne in 1861 but returned to England to study...
  
   (b. 1842), doctor and politician
• 13 November – Thomas Bulch
  Thomas Bulch
  Thomas Edward Bulch , born in New Shildon, Durham, England, was a noted Australian musician and composer.-Biography:...
  
   (b. 1862), musician and composer
• 14 November – Sandy Pearce
  Sandy Pearce
  Sidney Charles Pearce , better known as Sandy, was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer and boxer...
  
  (b. 1883), rugby league player