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1915 in Australia

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Monarchy
  
George V

Population
  
4,985,569

Governor-General
  
Ronald Munro-Ferguson

Prime minister
  
Andrew Fisher, then Billy Hughes

Elections
  
South Australia, Queensland

See also: 1914 in Australia, other events of 1915, 1916 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch – George V
  • Governor-General – Ronald Munro-Ferguson
  • Prime Minister – Andrew Fisher (until 27 October), then Billy Hughes

    • State premiers

  • Premier of New South Wales – William Holman
  • Premier of Queensland – Digby Denham (until 1 June), then T. J. Ryan
  • Premier of South Australia – Archibald Peake (until 2 April), then Crawford Vaughan
  • Premier of Tasmania – John Earle
  • Premier of Victoria – Alexander Peacock
  • Premier of Western Australia – John Scaddan

    • State governors

  • Governor of New South Wales – Gerald Strickland
  • Governor of Queensland – Hamilton Goold-Adams (from 15 March)
  • Governor of South Australia – Henry Galway
  • Governor of Tasmania – William Ellison-Macartney
  • Governor of Victoria – Arthur Stanley
  • Governor of Western Australia – Harry Barron

    • Events

  • 25 April – The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
  • 30 April – Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmara.
  • 6 June – The BHP steelworks opens in Newcastle, New South Wales.
  • 19 July – Albert Jacka becomes the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross during the First World War.
  • 9 August – Alexander Burton died at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey. He was awarded the Victoria Cross.
  • 24 August – The town of Holbrook, New South Wales was renamed from Germanton.
  • 10 October – Twenty six men left Gilgandra, New South Wales on the Cooee March; the first of the World War I Snowball marches. At each town on the route they shouted "cooee" to attract recruits; the march arrived in Sydney on 12 November with 263 recruits.
  • 27 October – Billy Hughes becomes the seventh Prime Minister of Australia and the first to serve consecutive terms in office.
  • 20 December – Completion of ANZAC evacuation from Gallipoli before dawn.

    • Science and technology

  • 10 December – Father and son scientists William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

    • Sport

  • Patrobas wins the Melbourne Cup
  • 1914/15 the Sheffield Shield was won by Victoria; after this season it was not contested due to the war.
  • The 1915 NSWRFL Premiership is won by Balmain.

    • Births

  • 6 February – Donald Friend (died 1989), artist, writer and diarist
  • 2 March – John Wear Burton (died 2010), public servant and diplomat
  • 3 March – Manning Clark (died 1991), historian
  • 22 March – Charlotte Anderson (died 2002), professor of paediatrics
  • 9 April – Bob Quinn (died 2008), SANFL footballer (Port Adelaide)
  • 30 May – Michael Thwaites (died 2005), poet, academic and intelligence officer
  • 31 May – Judith Wright (died 2000), poet
  • 3 June – Jim McClelland (died 1999), senator and government minister
  • 16 July – David Campbell (died 1979), poet
  • 3 August – Arthur John Birch (died 1995), organic chemist
  • 26 October – Lindsay Pryor (died 1998), botanist
  • 2 November – May Campbell (died 1981), field hockey player
  • 25 November – Ron Hamence (died 2010), cricketer
  • 29 November – Bob Cotton (died 2006), senator and government minister
  • 31 December – John Murray (died 2009), politician

    • Deaths

  • 11 January – James Wilkinson (born 1854), Queensland politician
  • 11 March – Thomas Alexander Browne (born 1826), author (Robbery Under Arms)
  • 4 April – Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor (born 1839), pastoralist and politician
  • 19 April – Thomas Playford II (born 1837), Premier of South Australia (1890–1892) and federal Minister for Defence (1905–1907)
  • 25 April - William Henry Strahan (born 1869) Poet, farmer and politician dies during the Galipolli landings
  • 2 June – George Randell (born 1830), West Australian politician
  • 25 June – Frederick Manson Bailey (born 1827), botanist
  • 28 June – Victor Trumper (born 1877), cricketer
  • 18 July – Marshall Hall (born 1862), musician
  • 2 August – John Downer (born 1843), Premier of South Australia (1885–1887, 1892–1893)
  • 8 October – E. Phillips Fox (born 1865), painter
  • 20 November – Robert Barr Smith (born 1824), businessman and philanthropist
  • 4 December – George Richards (born 1865), NSW politician
  • 21 December – Thomas Sergeant Hall (born 1858), geologist and biologist

    • References

    1915 in Australia Wikipedia
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