1937 in Australia

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See also: 1936 in Australia, other events of 1937, 1938 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

• Prime Minister - Joseph Lyons
• Governor General - Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
• Premier of New South Wales - Bertram Stevens
• Premier of South Australia - Richard L. Butler
• Premier of Queensland - William Forgan Smith
• Premier of Tasmania - Albert Ogilvie
• Premier of Western Australia - John Willcock
• Premier of Victoria - Albert Dunstan

[edit] Events

• February 9 - Cairns is hit by a tropical cyclone.
• February 15 - An explosion kills 13 men at the State Coal Mine in Wonthaggi, Victoria.
• March - Bernard O'Reilly locates the wreckage of an Airlines of Australia Stinson airliner, VH-UHH City of Brisbane, in the McPherson Ranges in southern Queensland. Two survivors are rescued, five others did not survive
• April 20 - Regular airmail services begin between Australia and the USA.
• October 23 - The ACTU calls on the government to boycott trade with Japan, following the Japanese invasion of China.
• November 19 - Hubert Opperman completes an epic bicycle ride from Fremantle, Western Australia to Sydney, taking 13 days, 10 hours and 11 minutes.

[edit] Births

• June 1 - Colleen McCullough, novelist
• June 11 - Robin Warren, Nobel Prize winner
• September 4 - Dawn Fraser, Olympic swimmer
• December 12 - Michael Jeffery, Governor General of Australia
• December 17 - Kerry Packer (d. 2005), businessman

[edit] Deaths

• February 14 - Walter Burley Griffin (b. 1876), architect of Canberra
• November 17 - Jack Worrall (b. 1860), cricket and Australian Rules football player