Deaths
- 1 January – Dawn Lake, 78, entertainer and widow of Bobby Limb
- 3 January – Steve Rogers, 51, Cronulla rugby league great
- 5 January – Sophie Heathcote, 33, actress
- 9 January – Andy Caldecott, 41, motorcyclist
- 31 January – Owen Abrahams, 72, Australian rules footballer
- 9 March – Harry Seidler, 82, architect
- 28 March – Pro Hart, 77, artist (born 1928)
- 24 April – Jimmy Sharman jnr, 94, boxing troupe impresario
- 6 May – Grant McLennan, 48, musician
- 7 May – Richard Carleton, 62, journalist
- 18 August - Ken Kearney, 82, rugby league footballer and coach
- 28 August – Don Chipp, 81, politician
- 4 September – Steve Irwin ("The Crocodile Hunter"), 44, environmentalist & documentarian
- 4 September – Colin Thiele, 85, author
- 8 September – Peter Brock, 61, motor racing driver
- 11 September – Nancy Borlase, 92, artist
- 15 September – Abe Saffron, 86, notorious Sydney nightclub owner and suspected underworld figure
- 3 October – Peter Norman, 64, athlete
- 2 November – Wally Foreman, 58, sports commentator
- 11 November – Belinda Emmett, 32, actress
- 27 November – Alan "Fluff" Freeman, 79, Australian-born UK radio personality
- 25 December – Sir Bob Cotton, 91, politician
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“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
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“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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