1915 in Australia

Infobox Australian year
year = 1915
monarch = George V
governor-general = Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson
pm = Andrew Fisher, then Billy Hughes
population = 4,985,569
australian =
elections =South Australia, Queensland"See also:"
1914 in Australia,
other events of 1915,
1916 in Australia and the
Timeline of Australian history.

Incumbents

*Monarch – King George V
*Governor-General – The Right Hon. Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson
*Prime Minister – Andrew Fisher (until October 27), then Billy Hughes

tate premiers

*Premier of New South Wales – William Holman
*Premier of Queensland – Digby Denham (until June 1), then T. J. Ryan
*Premier of South Australia – Archibald Peake (until April 2), then Crawford Vaughan
*Premier of Tasmania – John Earle
*Premier of Victoria – Sir Alexander Peacock
*Premier of Western Australia – John Scaddan

tate governors

*Governor of New South Wales – Sir Gerald Strickland
*Governor of Queensland – Major Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams (from March 15)
*Governor of South Australia – Lieutenant Colonel Sir Henry Galway
*Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Ellison-Macartney
*Governor of Victoria – Sir Arthur Stanley
*Governor of Western Australia – Major-General Sir Harry Barron

Events

* April 25 - The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
* April 30 - Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmara.
*June 6 - The BHP steelworks opens in Newcastle, New South Wales.
*July 19 - Albert Jacka becomes the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross during the First World War.
*August 9 - Alexander Burton died at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey. He was awarded the Victoria Cross.
*August 24 - The town of Holbrook, New South Wales was renamed from Germanton.
*October 10 - Twenty six men left Gilgandra, New South Wales on the Cooee March; the first of the World War I Snowball marches. At each town on the route they shouted "cooee" to attract recruits; the march arrived in Sydney on November 12 with 263 recruits.
*October 27 - Billy Hughes becomes the seventh Prime Minister of Australia and the first to serve consecutive terms in office.
*December 20 - Completion of ANZAC evacuation from Gallipoli before dawn.

cience & Technology

*10 December - Father and son scientists William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg win the Nobel Prize in Physics.