1919 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1919 in Australia.

1919 in Australia
MonarchyGeorge V
Governor-GeneralRonald Munro-Ferguson
Prime ministerBilly Hughes
Population5,193,104
ElectionsFederal, Tasmania

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Decades:
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
See also:

Incumbents
Billy Hughes

State premiers

State governors

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 breaks out on 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
Main article: 1919 in Australian literature

Film

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 – Arthur Wade, NSW politician (died 2014)
  • 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)
  • 30 May – Jim Miller, Australian rules footballer
  • 24 June – Fabian "Fabe" McCarthy, rugby union footballer (died 2008)
  • 6 July – Edward Kenna, Second World War VC recipient (died 2009)
  • 15 July – Harcourt Dowsley, sportsman (died 2014)
  • 14 September – Gil Langley, cricketer (died 2001)
  • 6 October – Abe Saffron, Sydney crime figure (died 2006)
  • 7 October – Zelman Cowen, Governor General of Australia (died 2011)
  • 5 November – Thomas O'Dwyer, cricketer (died 2005)
  • 19 November – Margaret Whitlam, wife of Gough Whitlam (died 2012)
  • 28 November – Keith Miller, pilot and sportsman ((died [2004)
  • 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

See also

References
  1. The Sentimental Bloke restored to its former glory Archived 13 July 2009 at the Library of Congress Web Archives, Australian Film Commission.
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