1939 in Australia

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1939 in Australia
Monarch	George VI
Governor-General	Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Baron Gowrie
Prime Minister	Joseph Lyons, Earle Page, Robert Menzies
Population	6,967,754
Elections	WA

See also: 1938 in Australia, other events of 1939, 1940 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Science & Technology 4 Arts and literature 5 Film 6 Sport 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 See also

[edit] Incumbents

• Prime Minister - Joseph Lyons (died in office April 7), Earle Page (until April 26), then Robert Menzies
• Governor General - Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
• Premier of New South Wales - Bertram Stevens (until August 5) then Alexander Mair
• Premier of South Australia - Thomas Playford
• Premier of Queensland - William Forgan Smith
• Premier of Tasmania - Albert Ogilvie (died in office June 10), Edmund Dwyer-Gray (until December 18) then Robert Cosgrove
• Premier of Western Australia - John Willcock
• Premier of Victoria - Albert Dunstan

[edit] Events

• January 13 - The bushfires of Black Friday kill 70 people in Victoria
• March 27 - The first Wirraway training aircraft, A20-3, takes to the air at Fishermans Bend, Victoria
• September 3 - Australia declares war on Germany

[edit] Science & Technology

[edit] Arts and literature

• Max Meldrum wins the Archibald Prize with his portrait of The Hon G J Bell, Speaker of the House of Representatives

[edit] Film

[edit] Sport

• Rivette wins the Melbourne Cup and Caulfield Cup
• Mosaic wins the Cox Plate
• South Australia wins the Sheffield Shield

[edit] Births

• January 6 - Murray Rose, swimmer
• January 29 - Germaine Greer, academic and feminist
• February 13 - Andrew Peacock, politician
• March 5 - Tony Rundle, Premier of Tasmania
• April 4 - Alex George, botanist
• April 7 - Brett Whiteley (d. 1992), artist
• April 20 - Elspeth Ballantyne, actress
• July 12 - Phillip Adams, broadcaster and writer
• July 26 - John Howard,Former Prime Minister of Australia
• September 5 - George Lazenby, actor
• October 8 - Paul Hogan, comedian and actor
• October 9 - John Pilger, journalist and filmmaker
• October 10 - Clive James, writer and social commentator
• November 25 - Ian Smith, politician
• December 26 - Fred Schepisi, film director

[edit] Deaths

• April 7 - Joseph Lyons (b. 1879), Prime Minister of Australia
• June 10 - Albert Ogilvie (b. 1890), Premier of Tasmania

[edit] See also

• 1939
• 1930s