1950 in Australia explained
The following lists events that happened during 1950 in Australia.
Incumbents
State Premiers
State Governors
Events
Arts and literature
See main article: 1950 in Australian literature.
Unknown dates
Sport
- Cricket
- Cycling
- Sid Patterson wins the world amateur pursuit cycling title in Belgium
- Football
- Golf
- Horse racing
- Motor racing
- Tennis
- Yachting
Births
- 1 January – Wayne Bennett, rugby league footballer and coach
- 26 January – Barry Round, Australian rules footballer (died 2022)
- 30 January – Jack Newton, golfer (died 2022)
- 11 February – John Cobb, politician
- 14 February – Phil Dent, tennis player
- 16 February – Malcolm Blight, Australian Rules football player
- 20 February – Garry Manuel, football (soccer) player
- 1 March – Estelle Blackburn, journalist
- 11 March – Sam Kekovich, Australian Rules football player
- 18 March – Larry Perkins, ATCC/V8 Supercars racing driver
- 20 March – Warren Snowdon, politician
- 10 April – Mick Dodson, indigenous leader
- 11 April – Jim Molan, politician and army officer (died 2023)
- 13 April – Tommy Raudonikis, rugby league player and coach (died 2021)
- 15 April – Peter Cochrane, historian
- 21 April – Bruce Duperouzel, footballer and cricketer
- 29 April – Phillip Noyce, film director
- 11 May – Gary Foley, indigenous activist
- 15 May – Jim Bacon, Premier of Tasmania (2001–2004, died 2004)
- 26 May – Paul Omodei, WA politician
- 29 May – Lesley Hunt, tennis player
- 31 May – Warren Entsch, politician
- 13 June – Belinda Bauer, actress
- 13 July - Kevin McQuay, businessman (died 2005)
- 15 July
- 17 July – Nick Bolkus, politician
- 21 July – Allan Maher, football (soccer) goalkeeper
- 28 July – Jim Maxwell, cricket commentator
- 8 August – Philip Salom, poet and novelist
- 16 August – Jeff Thomson, cricketer
- 19 August – Graeme Beard, cricketer
- 6 September – Robyn Davidson, writer
- 11 September – Bruce Doull, Australian Rules football player
- 27 September – John Marsden, writer
- 14 October – Kate Grenville, novelist
- 30 October – Tim Sheens, rugby league footballer and coach
- 2 November – Graeme Murphy, choreographer
- 7 November – John Lang, rugby league footballer and coach
- 25 November – Alexis Wright, writer
- 1 December – Ross Hannaford, guitarist (Daddy Cool) (died 2016)
- 10 December – Robert Cusack, swimmer
- 12 December
- 18 December – Gillian Armstrong, film director
- 22 December – Nick Enright, playwright, director (died 2003)
Deaths
- 2 January
- 20 January – Ray Duggan, speedway racer (b. 1913)
- 25 January – Chummy Fleming, trade unionist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1863)
- 9 February – Ted Theodore, 20th Premier of Queensland (b. 1884)
- 23 February – Henry Willis, New South Wales politician (b. 1860)
- 19 March – Harry Wright, Australian rules footballer (Essendon) (b. 1870)
- 14 April – Sir Albert Dunstan, 33rd Premier of Victoria (b. 1882)
- 6 May – Lancelot De Mole, engineer and inventor (b. 1880)
- 15 May – Jack Hickey, Olympic rugby union and league player (b. 1887)
- 11 June – Ernest Henshaw, Western Australian politician (b. 1870)
- 20 June – Claude Jennings, cricketer (b. 1884)
- 14 July – Bill Howell, cricketer (b. 1869)
- 31 July – George Wise, Victorian politician and solicitor (b. 1853)
- 6 August – Edwin Corboy, Western Australian politician (b. 1896)
- 8 August – Sir Fergus McMaster, businessman and aviation pioneer (b. 1879)
- 3 September – Michael Durack, Western Australian politician and pastoralist (b. 1865)
- 22 September – Edward Fowell Martin, public servant and soldier (b. 1875)
- 24 September – Dame Mary Cook, 6th Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1863)
- 6 November – Frank Brennan, Victorian politician (b. 1873)
- 20 November – Erle Cox, journalist and science fiction author (b. 1873)
- 2 December – James Fenton, Victorian politician (b. 1864)
- 29 December – Albert Lane, New South Wales politician (b. 1873)
See also
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