1898 in Australia

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See also: 1897 in Australia, other events of 1898, 1899 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Science & Technology 4 Arts and literature 5 Sport 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 See also

[edit] Incumbents

• Premier of New South Wales - George Reid
• Premier of South Australia - Charles Kingston
• Premier of Queensland - Hugh Nelson (until April 13), Thomas Joseph Byrnes (died in office September 27) then James Dickson
• Premier of Tasmania - Edward Braddon
• Premier of Western Australia - John Forrest
• Premier of Victoria - George Turner

[edit] Events

• May 6 - The paddle steamer Maitland sinks near Broken Bay. 24 persons are drowned
• October 17 - The Perth Zoo opens with two lions and a tiger.
• December 26 - Gatton murders - Three members of the same family are sexually molested and murdered near the town of Gatton, Queensland (unsolved).

• The Queen Victoria Building in Sydney is completed

[edit] Science & Technology

[edit] Arts and literature

• W. Lister Lister wins the Wynne Prize for landscape painting or figure sculpture for his landscape The Last Gleam

[edit] Sport

• The Grafter wins the Melbourne Cup
• Victoria wins the Sheffield Shield

[edit] Births

• February 12 - Sali Herman (d. 1993), war artist
• September 24 - Howard Walter Florey (d. 1968), pharmacologist and Nobel Prize winner

[edit] Deaths

• September 19 - George Edward Grey (b. 1812), Governor of South Australia
• September 27 - Thomas Joseph Byrnes (b. 1860), Premier of Queensland
• November 2 - George Goyder (b. 1826), Surveyor-General of South Australia

[edit] See also

• 1898
• 1800s