1917 in Australia explained
The following lists events that happened during 1917 in Australia.
Incumbents
State premiers
State governors
Events
Arts and literature
See main article: 1917 in Australian literature.
- Foundation of Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA), the peak body for Australia's live entertainment and performing arts industry.
Film
Sport
Births
- 17 February – Harry Gibbs, Chief Justice of the High Court (died 2005)
- 11 March – Nancy Cato, writer (died 2000)
- 14 March – John McCallum, actor (died 2010)
- 21 March – Frank Hardy, novelist (Power Without Glory) (died 1994)
- 25 March – Barbara Jefferis, author (died 2004)
- 22 April – Sidney Nolan, artist (died 1992)
- 30 April – Mervyn Wood, Olympic rower (died 2006)
- 3 May – James Penberthy, composer (died 1999)
- 7 May – Lenox Hewitt, public servant (died 2020)
- 15 May – Ron Saggers, cricketer (died 1987)
- 25 May – James Plimsoll, Governor of Tasmania from 1982–1987 (died 1987)
- 2 June – Peggy Antonio, female Test cricketer (died 2002)
- 14 July – Pat Moran, statistician (died 1988)
- 17 July – Jack Beale, politician and first Environment Minister (died 2006)
- 19 August – Laurie Aarons, leader of the Australian Communist Party (died 2005)
- 20 August – Dudley Erwin, politician (died 1984)
- 7 September – John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
- 12 September – Charles Jones, politician (died 2003)
- 19 September – Paterson Clarence Hughes, RAF pilot (killed in action 1940)
- 30 September – Kim Beazley Sr., Federal politician (died 2007)
- 2 October – Phil Ridings, cricketer (died 1998)
- 5 October – Kenneth Jacobs, Chief Justice of the High Court (died 2015)
- 17 October – Sumner Locke Elliott, novelist (died 1991)
- 20 October – D'Arcy Niland, novelist (died 1967)
- 21 November – Tom Reynolds, VFL footballer (Essendon and St Kilda) (died 2002)
- 22 November – Jon Cleary, novelist (died 2010)
- 8 December – Ian Johnson, cricketer (died 1998)
- 12 December – Xavier Connor, jurist (died 2005)
- 25 December – Tim Walker, NSW politician (died 1986)
- 31 December – Pat Hills, NSW politician (died 1992)
Deaths
- 31 March – Joseph Cullen, New South Wales and Western Australian politician (b. 1849)
- 5 April – E. H. Coombe, South Australian politician and newspaper editor (b. 1858)
- 6 May – Thomas Carr, Catholic archbishop (born in Ireland) (b. 1839)
- 24 May – Les Darcy, boxer (died in the United States) (b. 1895)
- 15 August – John Haynes, New South Wales politician and journalist (b. 1850)
- 26 August – William Lane, journalist and labour movement pioneer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1861)
- 15 September – Carty Salmon, Victorian politician (b. 1860)
- 17 September – Edward Petherick, book collector and bibliographer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1847)
- 31 October – Tibby Cotter, cricketer and soldier (died in the Ottoman Empire) (b. 1883)
- 9 November – Harry Trott, cricketer (b. 1866)
- 20 December – Frederick McCubbin, artist (b. 1855)
See also
Notes and References
- http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Committees/view/forSchools/documents/factSheets/Sheet%2039-%20%20ABOLITION%20OF%20THE%20UPPER%20HOUSE%20.pdf Abolition of the Upper House
- http://www.archivenet.gov.au/text_only/treasures/qld_intro.html The Warwick incident, Queensland 1917