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1921 in Australia

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Monarchy
  
George V

Prime minister
  
Billy Hughes

Governor-General
  
Henry Forster

Population
  
5,455,136

Elections
  
Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia

See also: 1920 in Australia, other events of 1921, 1922 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch – King George V
  • Governor-General – Henry Forster
  • Prime Minister – Billy Hughes

    • State premiers

  • Premier of New South Wales – John Storey (until 5 October), then James Dooley (from 10 October until 20 December), then George Fuller (for 7 hours on 20 December), then James Dooley
  • Premier of Queensland – Ted Theodore
  • Premier of South Australia – Henry Barwell
  • Premier of Tasmania – Walter Lee
  • Premier of Victoria – Harry Lawson
  • Premier of Western Australia – James Mitchell

    • State governors

  • Governor of New South Wales – Sir Walter Davidson
  • Governor of Queensland – Sir Matthew Nathan
  • Governor of South Australia – Sir William Weigall
  • Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Allardyce
  • Governor of Victoria – George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke (from 21 February)
  • Governor of Western Australia – Sir Francis Newdegate

    • Events

  • March – Group Settlement Scheme begins at Manjimup, Western Australia.
  • 7 March – The Commonwealth Department of Health is formed.
  • 12 March – Edith Cowan becomes the first female parliamentarian in Australia, when she is elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council.
  • 22 March – New South Wales MP Percy Brookfield is shot and killed when he tackles a crazed gunman at the train station in Riverton, South Australia.
  • 31 March – The Royal Australian Air Force is established.
  • 9 May – Australia assumes responsibility for administration of the Territory of New Guinea, following a League of Nations mandate divesting Germany of its colonies as required by the Treaty of Versailles.
  • 30 August – A general election is held in Victoria. Harry Lawson of the Nationalist Party is returned as premier, although in a minority government.
  • 26 October – The first group of Barnardo's Boys arrived in Sydney.
  • 13 November – The cartoon character Ginger Meggs makes his first appearance, in a Sunday Sun comic strip "Us Fellers" drawn by cartoonist Jimmy Bancks.
  • 30 December – Twelve-year-old Alma Tirtschke is raped and murdered in Melbourne, in what becomes known as the Gun Alley Murder.
  • 31 December – Walter Burley Griffin is removed as director of construction for Canberra after disagreements over his supervisory role.

    • Arts and literature

  • William McInnes wins the inaugural Archibald Prize for portraiture

    • Film

    The first silent film

    Sport

  • Sister Olive wins the Melbourne Cup
  • New South Wales wins the Sheffield Shield
  • In Test Cricket, Australia defeated England in The Ashes series
  • A Le Fevre wins the Australian Open Championship in golf
  • The 1921 VFL seasonThe Premiership is won by Richmond 5.6.36 to Carlton 4.8.32. Attendance 43,122 at the MCG.
  • The 1921 NSWRFL season sees the introduction of the St. George club. The Premiership is won by North Sydney.

    • Births

  • 3 January – Vasey Houghton, politician and conservationist (died 2001)
  • 9 January – Bunney Brooke, actor (Number 96) (died 2000)
  • 16 February – Bill Knott, NSW politician
  • 4 March – Walter Campbell, Governor of Queensland (died 2004)
  • 12 March – Norman Foster, politician (died 2006)
  • 29 March – Sam Loxton, cricketer
  • 1 April – Harold James Frith, ornithologist
  • 13 April – Max Harris, writer (Angry Penguins) (died 1995)
  • 13 May – George Petersen, Labor politician (died 2000)
  • 26 May – Norman Hetherington, artist, puppeteer (died 2010)
  • 28 May – Tom Uren, Labor politician
  • 3 June – Forbes Carlile, swimming coach and Olympic pentathlete
  • 7 June – Myrtle Edwards, cricketer and softball player
  • 19 June – Patricia Wrightson, children's author
  • 22 July – Ronald N. Bracewell, physicist and radio astronomer (died 2007)
  • 31 July – John Makepeace Bennett, computer scientist
  • 20 August – Jack Wilson, cricketer (died 1985)
  • 21 November – Betty Wilson, cricketer
  • 24 November – Allan Ashbolt, journalist (died 2005)
  • 26 December – Donald Horne, journalist and writer (died 2005)

    • Deaths

  • 14 January – Edward Hamersley (born 1835 or 1836), WA politician
  • 27 January – Maurice Vincent Buckley (born 1891), soldier and Victoria Cross recipient
  • 14 March – Gustave Barnes (born 1877), artist
  • 21 May – Oswald Watt (born 1878), aviator
  • 6 June – William Mark Forster (born 1846), philanthropist
  • 18 June – G. H. Gibson (born 1846), writer and satirist
  • 2 July – Edwin Evans (born 1849), cricketer
  • 12 July – Harry Hawker (born 1889), aviation pioneer
  • 26 July – Howard Vernon (born 1845), actor
  • 1 August – T. J. Ryan (born 1876), Premier of Queensland (1915–1919)
  • 23 August – Frank Hann (born 1846), explorer
  • 13 September – James Hebblethwaite (born 1857), poet
  • 5 October – John Storey (born 1869), Premier of New South Wales (1920–1921)
  • 30 October – James Murdoch (born 1856), Scottish journalist
  • 6 November – Robert Logan Jack (born 1845), geologist
  • 17 November – John McLaren (born 1886), cricketer
  • 24 December – William Curran, cricketer

    • References

    1921 in Australia Wikipedia
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