The following lists events that happened during 1950 in Australia.
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Decades: |
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
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Sport
- Cricket
- Cycling
- Sid Patterson wins the world amateur pursuit cycling title in Belgium
- Football
- Golf
- Horse Racing
- Motor Racing
- Tennis
- Yachting
Births
- 1 January – Wayne Bennett, rugby league footballer and coach
- 11 February – John Cobb, politician
- 14 February – Phil Dent, tennis player
- 16 February – Malcolm Blight, Australian Rules football player
- 20 February – Gary Manuel, football (soccer) player
- 1 March – Estelle Blackburn, journalist
- 11 March – Sam Kekovich, Australian Rules football player
- 18 March – Larry Perkins, ATCC/V8 Supercars racing driver
- 30 March – Warren Snowdon, politician
- 10 April – Mick Dodson, indigenous leader
- 15 April – Peter Cochrane, historian
- 21 April – Bruce Duperouzel, footballer and cricketer
- 29 April – Phillip Noyce, film director
- 11 May – Gary Foley, indigenous activist
- 15 May – Jim Bacon, Premier of Tasmania (2001–2004, died 2004)
- 26 May – Paul Omodei, WA politician
- 29 May – Lesley Hunt, tennis player
- 31 May – Warren Entsch, politician
- 13 June - Belinda Bauer, actress
- 13 July – Kevin McQuay, businessman (died 2005)
- 15 July – Colin Barnett, WA politician
- 15 July – Alan Hurst, cricketer
- 15 July – Peter Reith, politician
- 17 July – Nick Bolkus, politician
- 21 July – Allan Maher, football (soccer) goalkeeper
- 8 August – Philip Salom, poet and novelist
- 16 August – Jeff Thomson, cricketer
- 6 September – Robyn Davidson, writer
- 11 September – Bruce Doull, Australian Rules football player
- 27 September – John Marsden, writer
- 14 October – Kate Grenville, novelist
- 30 October - Tim Sheens, rugby league footballer and coach
- 2 November – Graeme Murphy, choreographer
- 7 November – John Lang, rugby league footballer and coach
- 25 November – Alexis Wright, writer
- 1 December – Ross Hannaford, guitarist (Daddy Cool)
- 10 December – Robert Cusack, swimmer
- 12 December
- 18 December – Gillian Armstrong, film director
- 22 December – Nick Enright, playwright, director
Deaths
- 2 January – James Dooley (born 1877), Premier of New South Wales (1921–1922)
- 2 January – Beaumont Smith (born 1885), film director and producer
- 20 January – Ray Duggan (born 1913), speedway motorcycle racer
- 25 January – Chummy Fleming (born 1863), trade unionist
- 23 February – Henry Willis (born 1860), politician
- 28 February – Ted Theodore (born 1884), Premier of Queensland (1919–1925)
- 19 March – Harry Wright (born 1870), Australian rules footballer (Essendon)
- 14 April – Sir Albert Dunstan (born 1882), Premier of Victoria (1935–1943, 1943–1945)
- 6 May – Lancelot De Mole (born 1880), engineer and inventor
- 15 May – Jack Hickey (born 1887), dual-code rugby international
- 11 June – Ernest Henshaw (born 1870), WA politician
- 20 June – Claude Jennings (born 1884), cricketer
- 14 July – Bill Howell (born 1869), cricketer
- 31 July – George Wise (born 1853), politician and solicitor
- 6 August – Edwin Corboy (born 1896), politician
- 8 August – Fergus McMaster (born 1879), co-founder of Qantas
- 3 September – Michael Durack (born 1865), pastoralist and WA pioneer
- 22 September – Edward Fowell Martin (born 1875), soldier
- 24 September – Dame Mary Turner Cook (born 1863), wife of Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook
- 6 November – Frank Brennan (born 1873), politician
- 20 November – Erle Cox (born 1873), journalist and science fiction author
- 16 December – James Fenton (born 1864), politician
- 29 December – Albert Lane (born 1873), politician
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1950 in Oceania |
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Sovereign states |
- Australia
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Kiribati
- Marshall Islands
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
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