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See also: 1918 in Australia, other events of 1919, 1920 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Incumbents

• Monarch – King George V
• Governor-General – Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson
• Prime Minister – Billy Hughes

State premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – William Holman
• Premier of Queensland – T.J. Ryan (until October 22), then Ted Theodore
• Premier of South Australia – Archibald Peake
• Premier of Tasmania – Walter Lee
• Premier of Victoria – Harry Lawson
• Premier of Western Australia – Sir Henry Lefroy (until April 17), then Sir Hal Colebatch (until May 17), then James Mitchell

State governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Walter Davidson
• Governor of Queensland – Hamilton Goold-Adams
• Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Galway
• Governor of Tasmania – Francis Newdegate
• Governor of Victoria – Sir Arthur Stanley
• Governor of Western Australia – William Ellison-Macartney

Events

• March 1 – The Potts, believed to be the world's longest running cartoon strip drawn by the same artist, is first published in The Sun News-Pictorial.
• March 24 – one of the most notable incidents of the Red Flag Riots occurred in Brisbane, Queensland, when a crowd of returned servicemen clashed with police. The incident had been sparked the previous day by a socialist demonstration against the continued operation of the War Precautions Act, which had angered many of the returned soldiers.
• June 1 – A mutiny occurs on board the Royal Australian Navy battlecruiser HMAS Australia shortly after it arrives in Fremantle, Western Australia.
• June 28 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, bringing Australia's involvement in World War I to an end.
• October 18 – Sir Adrian Knox is appointed Chief Justice of the High Court.
• October 28 – The Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act 1919 receives Royal Assent, confirming Australia's membership as a sovereign nation in the new League of Nations, and indicating Australia's independence from the United Kingdom.
• December 10 – Keith and Ross Smith, piloting a Vickers Vimy, reach Darwin at the end of the first England to Australia flight.
• December 19 – A federal election is held. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Billy Hughes defeats the Australian Labor Party of Frank Tudor.
• December 24 – The Electrical Trades Union of Australia is federally registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1904.
• The worldwide Spanish flu epidemic continues, eventually claiming almost 12,000 lives in Australia.
• At the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Australian delegates succeed in excluding recognition of the principle of racial equality in the League of Nations Covenant.

Science and technology

Arts and literature

• September 10 – J. F. Archibald, founding editor of the The Bulletin dies, bequeathing money which would be used to award the Archibald Prize for portraiture.

Film

• October 4 – The Sentimental Bloke premieres in Melbourne.^[1]

Sport

• November 11 – Artilleryman wins the Melbourne Cup

Births

• January 6 – Geoffrey Bingham, author and Anglican minister
• February 3 – Bill Alley, cricketer (d. 2004)
• February 16 – Keith Carmody, cricketer (d. 1977)
• February 22 – Mary Maguire, actress (d. 1974)
• March 1 – Reg Sprigg, geologist (d. 1994)
• March 20 – Pat Norton, backstroke swimmer (d. 2007)
• March 25 – William Wade, NSW politician
• March 28 – Tom Brooks, cricketer (d. 2007)
• April 10 – Vernon Wilcox, politician (d. 2004)
• May 1 – Lance Barnard, Deputy Prime Minister (d. 1997)
• May 15 – Thomas Drake-Brockman, politician (d. 1992)
• May 22 – Peter Howson, politician
• May 28 – Olga Masters, writer (d. 1986)
• June 24 – Fabian "Fabe" McCarthy, rugby union footballer
• September 14 – Gil Langley, cricketer (d. 2001)
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• October 6 – Abe Saffron, Sydney crime figure (d. 2006)
• October 7 – Zelman Cowen, Governor General of Australia
• November 5 – Thomas O'Dwyer, cricketer (d. 2005)
• November 19 – Margaret Whitlam, wife of Gough Whitlam
• December 7 – Wilfred Arthur, World War II fighter ace (d. 2000)
• December 10 – Jean Lee, last woman executed in Australia (d. 1951)
• December 17 – Geraldine Halls (pen name: Charlotte Jay), mystery novelist (d. 1996)
• December 29 – Malcolm Mackay, politician (d. 1999)

Deaths

• February 4 – Richard Bowyer Smith (b. 1837), inventor
• March 20 – Sir Edward Charles Stirling (b. 1848), anthropologist
• June 8 – Henry Briggs (b. 1844), WA politician
• June 21 – Sir Thomas à Beckett (b. 1836), solicitor and judge
• July 25 – Nat Gould (b. 1857), British novelist
• July 25 – Samuel McCaughey (b. 1835), pastoralist
• July 30 – Sir Simon Fraser (b. 1832), politician
• August 4 – Dave Gregory (b. 1845), cricketer
• September 10 – J.F. Archibald (b. 1856), publisher and journalist
• September 12 – John Mark Davies (b. 1840), Victorian politician
• September 24 – Frank Laver (b. 1869), cricketer
• October 7 – Alfred Deakin (b. 1856), Prime Minister of Australia
• October 25 – William Kidston (b. 1849), Premier of Queensland (1906–1907, 1908–1911)
• November 2 – Mephan Ferguson (b. 1843), manufacturer
• December 20 – Sir Philip Fysh (b. 1835), Premier of Tasmania (1877–1878, 1887–1892)
• December 25 – Sir Edwin Thomas Smith (b. 1830), SA politician

See also

• 1919
• 1910s

References