1921 in Australia
Monarch	George V
Governor-General	Henry Forster
Prime Minister	Billy Hughes
Population	5,455,136
Elections	Western Australia, Victoria, South Australia

See also: 1920 in Australia, other events of 1921, 1922 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 State premiers 1.2 State governors 2 Events 3 Science and technology 4 Arts and literature 5 Film 6 Sport 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 See also 10 References

[edit] Incumbents

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

[edit] State 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

[edit] 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 February 21)
• Governor of Western Australia – Sir Francis Newdegate

[edit] 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.^[1]
• 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.

[edit] Science and technology

[edit] Arts and literature

• William McInnes wins the inaugural Archibald Prize for portraiture

[edit] Film

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• 1921
• 1920s

[edit] References