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1919 in Australia

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Monarchy
  
George V

Prime minister
  
Billy Hughes

Elections
  
Federal, Tasmania

Governor-General
  
Ronald Munro-Ferguson

Population
  
5,193,104

See also: 1918 in Australia, other events of 1919, 1920 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch – King George V
  • Governor-General – Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson
  • Prime Minister – Billy Hughes

    • State premiers

  • Premier of New South Wales – William Holman
  • Premier of Queensland – T. J. Ryan (until 22 October), then Ted Theodore
  • Premier of South Australia – Archibald Peake
  • Premier of Tasmania – Walter Lee
  • Premier of Victoria – Harry Lawson
  • Premier of Western Australia – Sir Henry Lefroy (until 17 April), then Sir Hal Colebatch (until 17 May), then James Mitchell

    • State governors

  • Governor of New South Wales – Walter Davidson
  • Governor of Queensland – Hamilton Goold-Adams
  • Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Galway
  • Governor of Tasmania – Francis Newdegate
  • Governor of Victoria – Sir Arthur Stanley
  • Governor of Western Australia – William Ellison-Macartney

    • Events

  • 1 March – The Potts, believed to be the world's longest running cartoon strip drawn by the same artist, is first published in The Sun News-Pictorial.
  • 24 March – one of the most notable incidents of the Red Flag Riots occurred in Brisbane, Queensland, when a crowd of returned servicemen clashed with police. The incident had been sparked the previous day by a socialist demonstration against the continued operation of the War Precautions Act, which had angered many of the returned soldiers.
  • 1 June – A mutiny occurs on board the Royal Australian Navy battlecruiser HMAS Australia shortly after it arrives in Fremantle, Western Australia.
  • 28 June – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, bringing Australia's involvement in World War I to an end.
  • 18 October – Sir Adrian Knox is appointed Chief Justice of the High Court.
  • 28 October – The Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act 1919 receives Royal Assent, confirming Australia's membership as a sovereign nation in the new League of Nations, and indicating Australia's independence from the United Kingdom.
  • 10 December – Keith and Ross Smith, piloting a Vickers Vimy, reach Darwin at the end of the first England to Australia flight.
  • 19 December – A federal election is held. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Billy Hughes defeats the Australian Labor Party of Frank Tudor.
  • 24 December – The Electrical Trades Union of Australia is federally registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1904.
  • The worldwide Spanish flu epidemic continues, eventually claiming almost 12,000 lives in Australia.
  • At the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Australian delegates succeed in excluding recognition of the principle of racial equality in the League of Nations Covenant.

    • Arts and literature

  • 10 September – J. F. Archibald, founding editor of the The Bulletin dies, bequeathing money which would be used to award the Archibald Prize for portraiture.
  • Elioth Gruber wins the Wynne Prize for his work, Spring Frost.

    • Film

  • 4 October – The Sentimental Bloke premieres in Melbourne.

    • Sport

  • Balmain win the 1919 NSWRFL Premiership
  • 11 November – Artilleryman wins the Melbourne Cup
  • January 1919 – A.R.F. Kingscote wins the Australian Open

    • Births

  • 6 January – Geoffrey Bingham, author and Anglican minister (died 2009)
  • 3 February – Bill Alley, cricketer (died 2004)
  • 16 February – Keith Carmody, cricketer (died 1977)
  • 22 February – Mary Maguire, actress (died 1974)
  • 1 March – Reg Sprigg, geologist (died 1994)
  • 20 March – Pat Norton, backstroke swimmer (died 2007)
  • 25 March – William Wade, NSW politician
  • 28 March – Tom Brooks, cricketer (died 2007)
  • 10 April – Vernon Wilcox, politician (died 2004)
  • 1 May – Lance Barnard, Deputy Prime Minister (died 1997)
  • 15 May – Tom Drake-Brockman, politician (died 1992)
  • 22 May – Peter Howson, politician (died 2009)
  • 28 May – Olga Masters, writer (died 1986)
  • 24 June – Fabian "Fabe" McCarthy, rugby union footballer
  • 14 September – Gil Langley, cricketer (died 2001)
  • 6 October – Abe Saffron, Sydney crime figure (died 2006)
  • 7 October – Zelman Cowen, Governor General of Australia
  • 5 November – Thomas O'Dwyer, cricketer (died 2005)
  • 19 November – Margaret Whitlam, wife of Gough Whitlam
  • 7 December – Wilfred Arthur, World War II fighter ace (died 2000)
  • 10 December – Jean Lee, last woman executed in Australia (died 1951)
  • 17 December – Geraldine Halls (pen name: Charlotte Jay), mystery novelist (died 1996)
  • 29 December – Malcolm Mackay, politician (died 1999)

    • Deaths

  • 4 February – Richard Bowyer Smith (born 1837), inventor
  • 20 March – Sir Edward Charles Stirling (born 1848), anthropologist
  • 8 June – Henry Briggs (born 1844), WA politician
  • 21 June – Sir Thomas à Beckett (born 1836), solicitor and judge
  • 25 July – Nat Gould (born 1857), British novelist
  • 25 July – Samuel McCaughey (born 1835), pastoralist
  • 30 July – Sir Simon Fraser (born 1832), politician
  • 4 August – Dave Gregory (born 1845), cricketer
  • 10 September – J.F. Archibald (born 1856), publisher and journalist
  • 12 September – John Mark Davies (born 1840), Victorian politician
  • 24 September – Frank Laver (born 1869), cricketer
  • 7 October – Alfred Deakin (born 1856), Prime Minister of Australia
  • 25 October – William Kidston (born 1849), Premier of Queensland (1906–1907, 1908–1911)
  • 2 November – Mephan Ferguson (born 1843), manufacturer
  • 20 December – Sir Philip Fysh (born 1835), Premier of Tasmania (1877–1878, 1887–1892)
  • 25 December – Sir Edwin Thomas Smith (born 1830), SA politician

    • References

    1919 in Australia Wikipedia
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