1921 in Australia

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

Incumbents

March – Group Settlement Scheme begins at Manjimup, Western Australia.
7 March – The Commonwealth Department of Health is formed.
12 March – Edith Cowan becomes the first female parliamentarian in Australia, when she is elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council.
22 March – New South Wales MP Percy Brookfield is shot and killed when he tackles a crazed gunman at the train station in Riverton, South Australia.
31 March – The Royal Australian Air Force is established.^[1]
9 May – 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.
30 August – A general election is held in Victoria. Harry Lawson of the Nationalist Party is returned as premier, although in a minority government.
26 October – The first group of Barnardo's Boys arrived in Sydney.
13 November – The cartoon character Ginger Meggs makes his first appearance, in a Sunday Sun comic strip "Us Fellers" drawn by cartoonist Jimmy Bancks.
30 December – Twelve-year-old Alma Tirtschke is raped and murdered in Melbourne, in what becomes known as the Gun Alley Murder.
31 December – Walter Burley Griffin is removed as director of construction for Canberra after disagreements over his supervisory role.

The first silent film

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
The 1921 VFL seasonThe Premiership is won by Richmond 5.6.36 to Carlton 4.8.32. Attendance 43,122 at the MCG.
The 1921 NSWRFL season sees the introduction of the St. George club. The Premiership is won by North Sydney.

14 January – Edward Hamersley (born 1835 or 1836), WA politician
27 January – Maurice Vincent Buckley (born 1891), soldier and Victoria Cross recipient
14 March – Gustave Barnes (born 1877), artist
21 May – Oswald Watt (born 1878), aviator
6 June – William Mark Forster (born 1846), philanthropist
18 June – G. H. Gibson (born 1846), writer and satirist
2 July – Edwin Evans (born 1849), cricketer
12 July – Harry Hawker (born 1889), aviation pioneer
26 July – Howard Vernon (born 1845), actor
1 August – T. J. Ryan (born 1876), Premier of Queensland (1915–1919)
23 August – Frank Hann (born 1846), explorer
13 September – James Hebblethwaite (born 1857), poet
5 October – John Storey (born 1869), Premier of New South Wales (1920–1921)
30 October – James Murdoch (born 1856), Scottish journalist
6 November – Robert Logan Jack (born 1845), geologist
17 November – John McLaren (born 1886), cricketer
24 December – William Curran, cricketer

Years in Australia (1788–present)

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Timeline of Australian history

1921 in Oceania

Sovereign states	Australia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

Associated states of New Zealand	Cook Islands Niue

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