1921 in Australia

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  • Other events of 1921
  • Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1921 in Australia.

1921 in Australia
MonarchyGeorge V
Governor-GeneralHenry Forster
Prime ministerBilly Hughes
Population5,455,136
ElectionsWestern Australia, , South Australia

Incumbents[]

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.[1]
  • 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.
  • 3 November – Federal MP Walter Marks told the House of Representatives that Armageddon would occur in 1934.[2]
  • 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[]

Main article: 1921 in Australian literature

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, replacing Annandale, who departed the league after the 1920 season. The Premiership is won by North Sydney.

Births[]

  • 3 January
  • 9 January – Bunney Brooke, actor (Number 96) (died 2000)
  • 3 February – John Millett, poet (died 2019)
  • 16 February – Bill Knott, NSW politician (died 2013)
  • 21 February – Rupert Myers, metallurgist (died 2019)
  • 4 March – Walter Campbell, Governor of Queensland (died 2004)
  • 12 March – Norm Foster, politician (died 2006)
  • 27 March - Betty Mawson - amazing great grandma
  • 28 April – Robert Furlonger, diplomat and public servant (died 2019)
  • 29 March – Sam Loxton, cricketer (died 2011)
  • 1 April – Harold James Frith, ornithologist (died 1982)
  • 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 (died 2015)
  • 3 June – Forbes Carlile, swimming coach and Olympic pentathlete (died 2016)
  • 7 June – Myrtle Edwards, cricketer and softball player (died 2010)
  • 19 June – Patricia Wrightson, children's author (died 2010)
  • 1 July – Teddy Long, Australian rules footballer (died 2008)
  • 15 July – Barrie Dexter, senior diplomat (died 2018)
  • 21 July – Mary MacLean Hindmarsh, botanist (died 2000)[3]
  • 22 July – Ronald N. Bracewell, physicist and radio astronomer (died 2007)
  • 31 July – John Makepeace Bennett, computer scientist (died 2010)
  • 9 August – Catherine Pym, fencer (died 2018)
  • 20 August – Jack Wilson, cricketer (died 1985)
  • 21 November – Betty Wilson, cricketer (died 2010)
  • 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
  • 27 November - Mary Grant Roberts, zoo owner (born 1841)[4]
  • 24 December – William Curran, cricketer

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ The Inter-war years 1921 to 1939, Australian Defence Force.
  2. ^ "Armageddon". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 November 1921.
  3. ^ Haines, Catharine M.C.; Stevens, Helen M., eds. (2001). "Hindmarsh, Mary Maclean". International Women in Science – A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 133–134. ISBN 1-57607-090-5.
  4. ^ Guiler, Eric. "Roberts, Mary Grant (1841–1921)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
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