1921 in Australia

Infobox Australian year
year = 1921
monarch = George V
governor-general = Henry Forster
pm =Billy Hughes
population = 5,455,136
australian =
elections =Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia"See also:"
1920 in Australia,
other events of 1921,
1922 in Australia and the
Timeline of Australian history.

Incumbents

*Monarch – King George V
*Governor-General – Henry Forster
*Prime Minister – Billy Hughes

tate premiers

*Premier of New South Wales – John Storey (until October 5), then James Dooley (from October 10 until December 20), then George Fuller (for 7 hours on December 20), 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

tate 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 February 21)
*Governor of Western Australia – Sir Francis Newdegate

Events

*March 7 – The Commonwealth Department of Health is formed.
*March 12 – Edith Cowan becomes the first female parliamentarian in Australia, when she is elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council.
*March 22 – New South Wales MP Percy Brookfield is shot and killed when he tackles a crazed gunman at the train station in Riverton, South Australia.
*March 31 – The Royal Australian Air Force is established. [http://www.defence.gov.au/raaf/history/airforce_history/interwar.htm The Inter-war years 1921 to 1939] , Australian Defence Force.]
*May 9 – 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.
*August 30 - A general election is held in Victoria. Harry Lawson of the Nationalist Party is returned as premier, although in a minority government.
*October 26 – The first group of Barnardo's Boys arrived in Sydney.
*November 13 – The cartoon character Ginger Meggs makes his first appearance, in a "Sunday Sun" comic strip "Us Fellers" drawn by cartoonist Jimmy Bancks.
*December 30 – Twelve-year-old Alma Tirtschke is raped and murdered in Melbourne, in what becomes known as the Gun Alley Murder.
*December 31 – Walter Burley Griffin is removed as director of construction for Canberra after disagreements over his supervisory role.

cience & Technology

Arts and literature

* William McInnes wins the inaugural Archibald Prize for portraiture

Film

port

* "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

Births

*January 3 – Vasey Houghton, politician and conservationist (d. 2001)
*January 9 – Bunney Brooke, actor ("Number 96") (d. 2000)
*February 16 – Bill Knott, NSW politician
*March 4 – Walter Campbell, Governor of Queensland (d. 2004)
*March 12 – Norman Foster, politician (d. 2006)
*March 29 – Sam Loxton, cricketer
*April 1 – Harold James Frith, ornithologist
*April 13 – Max Harris, writer ("Angry Penguins") (d. 1995)
*May 13 – George Petersen, Labor politician (d. 2000)
*May 28 – Tom Uren, Labor politician
*June 3 – Forbes Carlile, swimming coach and Olympic pentathlete
*June 19 – Patricia Wrightson, children's author
*July 22 – Ronald N. Bracewell, physicist and radio astronomer (d. 2007)
*July 31 – John Makepeace Bennett, computer scientist
*August 20 – Jack Wilson, cricketer (d. 1985)
*November 21 – Betty Wilson, cricketer
*November 24 – Allan Ashbolt, journalist (d. 2005)
*December 26 – Donald Horne, journalist and writer (d. 2005)

Deaths

*January 14 – Edward Hamersley (b. 1935 or 1936), WA politician
*January 27 – Maurice Vincent Buckley (b. 1891), soldier and Victoria Cross recipient
*March 14 – Gustave Barnes (b. 1877), artist
*May 21 – Oswald Watt (b. 1878), aviator
*June 6 – William Mark Forster (b. 1846), philanthropist
*June 18 – G. H. Gibson (b. 1846), writer and satirist
*July 2 – Edwin Evans (b. 1849), cricketer
*July 12 – Harry Hawker (b. 1889), aviation pioneer
*July 26 – Howard Vernon (b. 1845), actor
*August 1 – T. J. Ryan (b. 1876), Premier of Queensland (1915–1919)
*August 23 – Frank Hann (b. 1846), explorer
*September 13 – James Hebblethwaite (b. 1857), poet
*October 5 – John Storey (b. 1869), Premier of New South Wales (1920–1921)
*October 30 – James Murdoch (b. 1856), Scottish journalist
*November 6 – Robert Logan Jack (b. 1845), geologist
*November 17 – John McLaren (b. 1886), cricketer
*December 24 – William Curran, cricketer

ee also

*1921
*1920s

References