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1913 in Australia

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Monarchy
  
George V

Population
  
4,820,172

Governor-General
  
Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman

Prime minister
  
Andrew Fisher, then Joseph Cook

Elections
  
Federal, New South Wales, Tasmania

See also: 1912 in Australia, other events of 1913, 1914 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch – George V
  • Governor-General – Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
  • Prime Minister – Andrew Fisher (until 24 June), then Joseph Cook

    • State premiers

  • Premier of New South Wales – James McGowen (until 29 June), then William Holman
  • Premier of Queensland – Digby Denham
  • Premier of South Australia – Archibald Peake
  • Premier of Tasmania – Albert Solomon
  • Premier of Victoria – William Watt (until 9 December), then George Elmslie
  • Premier of Western Australia – John Scaddan

    • State governors

  • Governor of New South Wales – Frederic Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford (until 11 March), then Gerald Strickland (from 14 March)
  • Governor of Queensland – William MacGregor
  • Governor of South Australia – Day Bosanquet
  • Governor of Tasmania – Harry Barron (until 10 March), then William Ellison-Macartney (from 4 June)
  • Governor of Victoria – John Fuller
  • Governor of Western Australia – Gerald Strickland (until 4 March), then Harry Barron (from 17 March)

    • Events

  • 2 January – Australian philately proper begins in early 1913 with the Kangaroo and Map series of stamps, featuring a kangaroo standing on a map of Australia, and inscribed "AUSTRALIA POSTAGE".
  • 12 March – Canberra is named by Gertrude Denman
  • 1 May – The first national banknotes were introduced in denominations of 10 shillings, and 1, 5, and 10 pounds.
  • 31 May – Australian referendum, 1913 contained six questions: Trade and Commerce, Corporations, Industrial Matters, Trusts, Monopolies, Railway Disputes. None of these were carried.
  • 21 June – HMAS Australia, commissioned at Portsmouth and sailed to Australia to become the Australian flagship.
  • Royal Commission appointed to inquire into certain charges against Henry Chinn; Chinn was supervising engineer for the transcontinental railway in Western Australia.
  • Royal Commission on Northern Territory railways and ports
  • Royal Commission on powellised timber
  • Golden Fleece Company established by HC Sleigh; acquired by Caltex in 1981
  • The Workers' Educational Association founded; it is Australia's largest non-government adult community education organisation.
  • From 1859 until 1913, a squadron of the Royal Navy was maintained in Australian waters.
  • Norfolk Island Act 1913 meant that Norfolk Island became an Australia Territory under the authority of the Australian Commonwealth.

    • Science and technology

  • Amalgamation took place between Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd and the Australian Wireless Company forming Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited.
  • The first totalisator, an entirely mechanical system invented by the Australian George Julius of Julius Poole & Gibson Pty Ltd, was installed at Ellerslie Racecourse in New Zealand.

    • Film

  • Moondyne
  • Australia Calls, Raymond Longford's last film for Cozens Spencer was released.
  • Frank Hurley's actuality film, The Home of the Blizzard, about the Douglas Mawson expedition to Antarctica, was released.

    • Sport

  • The 1913 VFL (now AFL) Premiership was won by Fitzroy
  • The 1913 NSWRFL Premiership is won by Eastern Suburbs
  • Posinatus wins the Melbourne Cup
  • South Australia wins the 1912–13 Sheffield Shield
  • The Australian cricket team toured USA and Canada in June to August, playing five matches, four in Philadelphia and one in Toronto.

    • Births

  • 24 January – Ray Stehr (died 1983), rugby league footballer
  • 20 February – Mary Durack, author and historian (died 1994)
  • 5 March - Darby Munro, jockey
  • 6 March – Ken Kennedy, ice speed skater (died 1985)
  • 4 April – Dave Brown (died 1974), rugby league footballer
  • 2 October – Roma Mitchell, Australia's first female QC, and first female judge; judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and subsequently Governor of South Australia.
  • 30 December – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (died 2002)

    • References

    1913 in Australia Wikipedia
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