1919 in Australia

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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

Incumbents[]

Billy Hughes
  • Monarch – George V
  • Governor-General – Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson
  • Prime Minister – Billy Hughes
  • Chief Justice – Samuel Griffith (until 17 October) then Adrian Knox (from 18 October)

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

Film[]

  • 4 October – The Sentimental Bloke premieres in Melbourne.[1]

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[]

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

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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