1902 in Australia

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The following lists events that happened during 1902 in Australia.

1902 in Australia
MonarchyEdward VII
Governor-GeneralJohn Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun
Prime ministerEdmund Barton
Population3,845,265
ElectionsSouth Australia, ,

In 1902 women were finally allowed to vote and stand in federal elections.

Incumbents[]

Edmund Barton
  • Monarch – Edward VII
  • Governor-General – John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun
  • Prime Minister – Edmund Barton

State premiers[]

State governors[]

  • Governor of New South Wales – Admiral Harry Rawson (from 27 May)
  • Governor of South Australia – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (until 17 July)
  • Governor of Queensland – Major General Sir Herbert Chermside (from 24 March)
  • Governor of Tasmania – Captain Sir Arthur Havelock
  • Governor of Western Australia – Sir Arthur Lawley (until 14 August)
  • Governor of Victoria – Sir George Clarke

Events[]

  • 7 February – The Waterside Workers Federation is formed.
  • April – Averaged over Australia, the driest month on record with only 3.74 millimetres (0.15 in).[1] Over half the continent was absolutely rainless and less than 3 percent outside Tasmania had more than 10 millimetres (0.39 in).[2]
  • 31 May – The Second Boer War, in which Australia is involved, ends.
  • 12 June – The Commonwealth Franchise Act granted most Australian women the right to vote and stand in federal elections.
  • 31 July – A coal gas explosion kills 96 in the Mount Kembla mining disaster
  • 1 August – New Idea magazine is first published.
  • 3 November – Postmaster-General James Drake opens a submarine telegraph cable from Southport, Queensland to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, completing a British Empire communications line.
  • 18 December – The mayors of Sydney and Melbourne are conferred the title of Lord Mayor
  • 26 December – Brisbane is declared a city.
  • 26 December – Ada Evans becomes the first female law graduate in Australia.
  • As a culmination of the Federation Drought, this was by raw totals the driest calendar year averaged over Australia since 1890[3] with only 314.46 millimetres (12.38 in)[4] (though by area-averaged mean decile it was only eleventh driest).[5]

Unknown dates[]

  • The world's first successful pyritic smelting takes place at Mount Lyell, Tasmania

Arts and literature[]

Main article: 1902 in Australian literature
  • 17 September – Opera singer Nellie Melba arrives in Brisbane for her first Australian tour after 16 years in Europe.
  • James White wins the Wynne Prize with his bronze sculpture In Defence of the Flat

Sport[]

  • 27 September – Collingwood wins the 1902 VFL grand final, defeating Essendon 9.6 (60) to 3.9 (27) at the first final to be held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground before a record crowd of 35,000.
  • 11 November – The Victory wins the Melbourne Cup
  • New South Wales wins the Sheffield Shield

Births[]

  • 15 January – Dan Dempsey (died 1960), rugby league footballer
  • 25 February – Vince Gair (died 1980), politician
  • 2 May – Alan Marshall (died 1984), writer
  • 22 May – Leslie Herron (died 1973), Chief Justice of NSW
  • 12 July – Vic Armbruster (died 1984), rugby league footballer
  • 17 July – Christina Stead (died 1983), writer
  • 28 July – Albert Namatjira (died 1959), painter

Deaths[]

  • 27 February – Breaker Morant (born 1864), soldier
  • 6 March – Frederick William Piesse (born 1848), member of the federal parliament for Tasmania
  • 24 June – George Leake (born 1856), Premier of Western Australia

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Sorted rainfall over Australia for all months
  2. ^ April 1902 rainfall totals
  3. ^ Australian Bureau of Meteorology National Climate Centre; Annual Climate Summary 2000, p. 1
  4. ^ Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Sorted annual rainfall over Australia
  5. ^ Smith, Ian; "An assessment of recent trends in Australian rainfall"; in Australian Meteorological Magazine; issue 53 (2004); pp. 163-173
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