1919 in Australia

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

Incumbents

• Prime Minister - Billy Hughes
• Governor General - Ronald Munro-Ferguson
• Premier of New South Wales - William Holman
• Premier of South Australia - Archibald Peake
• Premier of Queensland - Thomas Ryan (til October 22) then Ted Theodore
• Premier of Tasmania - Walter Lee
• Premier of Western Australia - Sir Henry Lefroy (til April 17) Sir Hal Colebatch (til May 17) then James Mitchell
• Premier of Victoria - Harry Lawson

Events

• March 1 - The Potts cartoon strip is first published
• October - Sir Adrian Knox is appointed Chief Justice of the High Court
• December 10 - Keith and Ross Smith, piloting a Vickers Vimy, reach Darwin at the end of the first England to Australia flight
• The worldwide Spanish flu epidemic continues, eventually claiming almost 12,000 lives in Australia

Science & Technology

Arts and literature

Film

• October 4 - The Sentimental Bloke premieres in Melbourne

Sport

• Artilleryman wins the Melbourne Cup

Births

• February 22 – Mary Maguire, actress (d. 1974)
• October 7 – Zelman Cowen, Governor General of Australia

Deaths

• September 10 - J.F. Archibald (b. 1856), publisher and journalist
• October 7 - Alfred Deakin (b. 1856) Prime Minister of Australia

See also

• 1919
• 1910s