Events
- 8 April – A referendum is held in Western Australia, which is carried 2 to 1 in favour of secession from the Commonwealth of Australia.
- 26 April – The seaplane carrier, HMAS Albatross, is paid off into reserve.
- 10 June – The Australian Women's Weekly is first published.
- 13 June – The Australian Antarctic Territory is established.
- 28 August – The Brisbane newspaper, The Courier-Mail, is first published.
- 5 September – Australia signs a trade agreement with New Zealand.
- 6 September – Windscreen wipers become compulsory on all Australian cars.
- 13 October – The first traffic lights in Sydney become operational at the intersection of Kent and Market Streets.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.”
—Marilyn French (b. 1929)
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)