- 1917 in Australia
Infobox Australian year
year = 1917
monarch = George V
governor-general = Ronald Munro-Ferguson
pm =Billy Hughes
population = 4,940,815
australian =
elections =Federal, New South Wales, Western Australia, Victoria"See also:"1916 in Australia ,
other events of 1917,1918 in Australia and theTimeline of Australian history ."As of 1917 Australia's population was still only 5 million, with most people living in scattered rural areas. The sea voyage to Britain took two months, and land transport within Australia itself was slow." [cite web
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first = Jared
authorlink = Jared Diamond
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year = 1992
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title = The Arrow of Disease
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publisher = Discover (October 1992 vol. 13 Number 10 pp. 64-73)
accessdate = 2006-06-25]Incumbents
*Monarch – King George V
*Governor-General – The Right Hon. Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson
*Prime Minister –Billy Hughes tate premiers
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Premier of New South Wales –William Holman
*Premier of South Australia –Crawford Vaughan (untilJuly 14 ), thenArchibald Peake
*Premier of Queensland –T. J. Ryan
*Premier of Tasmania –Walter Lee
*Premier of Western Australia –Frank Wilson (untilJune 28 ), thenHenry Lefroy
*Premier of Victoria – Sir Alexander Peacock (untilNovember 29 ), thenJohn Bowser tate governors
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Governor of New South Wales – Sir Gerald Strickland (untilOctober 28 )
*Governor of South Australia – Lieutenant Colonel Sir Henry Galway
*Governor of Queensland – Major Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams
*Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Ellison-Macartney (until 31 March), then Sir Francis Newdegate (fromJuly 6 )
*Governor of Western Australia – Major General Sir Harry Barron (untilFebruary 27 ), then Sir William Ellison-Macartney (fromApril 9 )
*Governor of Victoria – Sir Arthur StanleyEvents
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March 20 – LieutenantFrank Hubert McNamara becomes the first Australian airman to receive theVictoria Cross .
*May 5 – A federal election is held. The incumbent Nationalist government led byBilly Hughes is returned to power.
*May 5 –Queensland ers reject areferendum to abolish the state's Legislative Council. [ [http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Committees/view/forSchools/documents/factSheets/Sheet%2039-%20%20ABOLITION%20OF%20THE%20UPPER%20HOUSE%20.pdf Abolition of the Upper House] ,Parliament of Queensland ,27 March 2001 .]
*August 2 – The General Strike of 1917 begins, a massive industrial action involving over 100,000 workers in support of railway workers in Sydney.
*October 17 – The two halves of theTrans-Australian Railway meet.
*November 15 – A general election is held in Victoria. TheCommonwealth Liberal Party led byJohn Bowser defeats the incumbent Labour government led by Sir Alexander Peacock.
*November 29 – The "Warwick Incident" takes place in the town ofWarwick, Queensland . A man throws an egg at Prime MinisterBilly Hughes , and the refusal ofQueensland Police to arrest him leads to the forming of the Commonwealth Police Force. [ [http://www.archivenet.gov.au/text_only/treasures/qld_intro.html The Warwick incident, Queensland 1917] ,Queensland State Archives .]
*December 12 – TheRoyal Australian Navy battlecruiser HMAS "Australia" is damaged in a collision with the British cruiser HMS "Repulse".
*December 20 – The second plebiscite on the issue of military conscription was held; it was defeated.Arts and literature
* Foundation of
Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA), the peak body for Australia’s live entertainment and performing arts industry.Film
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19 March - "Our friends the Hayseeds " released in Sydney. The film made byBeaumont Smith was Australia's first substantial film comedy.port
* "
Westcourt " wins theMelbourne Cup
* The Sheffield Shield was not contested due to the war.Births
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February 17 –Harry Gibbs , Chief Justice of the High Court (d. 2005)
*March 11 –Nancy Cato , writer (d. 2000)
*March 14 – John McCallum, actor
*March 21 –Frank Hardy , novelist ("Power Without Glory ") (d. 1994)
*March 25 –Barbara Jefferis , author (d. 2004)
*April 22 –Sidney Nolan , artist (d. 1992)
*April 30 –Mervyn Wood , Olympic rower (d. 2006)
*May 3 –James Penberthy , composer (d. 1999)
*May 15 –Ron Saggers , cricketer (d. 1987)
*May 25 –James Plimsoll , Governor of Tasmania from 1982–1987 (d. 1987)
*June 2 –Peggy Antonio , female Test cricketer (d. 2002)
*July 14 – Pat Moran, statistician (d. 1988)
*July 17 –Jack Beale , politician and first Environment Minister (d. 2006)
*August 19 –Laurie Aarons , leader of the Australian Communist Party (d. 2005)
*August 20 –Dudley Erwin , politician (d. 1984)
*September 7 –John Cornforth , Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
*September 12 – Charles Jones, politician (d. 2003)
*September 19 –Paterson Clarence Hughes , RAF pilot (d. 1940)
*September 30 –Kim Edward Beazley , Federal politician (d. 2007)
*October 2 –Phil Ridings , cricketer (d. 1998)
*October 5 –Kenneth Jacobs , Chief Justice of the High Court
*October 17 –Sumner Locke Elliott , novelist (d. 1991)
*October 20 –D'Arcy Niland , novelist
*November 22 –Jon Cleary , novelist
*December 8 – Ian Johnson, cricketer (d. 1998)
*December 12 –Xavier Connor , jurist (d. 2005)
*December 25 –Noel Walker , NSW politician (d. 1986)
*December 31 –Pat Hills , NSW politician (d. 1992)Deaths
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March 31 –Joseph Cullen (b. 1849), NSW and WA politician
*April 5 –E. H. Coombe (b. 1858), South Australian politician
*May 6 –Thomas Joseph Carr (b. 1839), Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne
*May 24 –Les Darcy (b. 1895), boxer
*August 15 – John Haynes (b. 1850), NSW politician
*August 26 –William Lane (b. 1861), journalist and labour movement pioneer
*September 17 –Edward Petherick (b. 1847), book collector
*October 31 –Tibby Cotter (b. 1884), cricketer
*November 10 –Harry Trott (b. 1866), cricketer
*December 20 –Frederick McCubbin (b. 1855), painteree also
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