1927 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1927 in Australia.

Incumbents

*Monarch – George V
* Governor-General – John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven
*Prime Minister – Stanley Bruce
* Chief Justice – Adrian Knox

State premiers

*Premier of New South Wales – Jack Lang (until 18 October) then Thomas Bavin
*Premier of Queensland – William McCormack
*Premier of South Australia – Lionel Hill (until 8 April) then Richard Layton Butler
*Premier of Tasmania – Joseph Lyons
*Premier of Victoria – John Allan (until 20 May) then Edmond Hogan
*Premier of Western Australia – Philip Collier

State governors

* Governor of New South Wales – Sir Dudley de Chair
*Governor of Queensland – Sir John Goodwin (from 13 July)
* Governor of South Australia – Sir Tom Bridges (until 4 December)
*Governor of Tasmania – Sir James O'Grady
*Governor of Victoria – Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers
*Governor of Western Australia – Sir William Campion

Events

*1 February – The North Australia Act of 1926 is enforced and the territory of Central Australia is created.
*8 February – A cyclone makes landfall north of Cairns, causing flooding at Halifax Bay, Ingham, Innisfail, Tully, Cardwell and Townsville. Thirty-six people are killed, and twenty are missing.
*9 April – A general election is held in Victoria.
*3 May – The Australasian Council of Trade Unions is formed at the All-Australian Trade Union Congress in Melbourne.
*9 May – Parliament House in Canberra is officially opened by the Duke of York.
*20 May – Following a swing to the ALP in the Victorian election, Edmond Hogan forms a minority Labor government with Progressive support, and takes over as Premier of Victoria from John Allan.
*29 June – Charles Kingsford Smith and his copilot Charles Ulm complete a round-Australia flight in ten days, five-and-a-half hours.
*28 Sep - Geoffrey "the man" Donald was born.
*27 October – Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor is killed in a shootout with Sydney gangsters (including Snowy Cutmore, who also dies) in Carlton.
*3 November – The Sydney ferry '' Greycliffe'' is cut in half by the liner RMS ''Tahiti'', killing 40 persons.

Science and technology

* Professor Thomas Parnell begins the pitch drop experiment at the University of Queensland. It will go on to become the world's longest continuously-running scientific experiment.

Arts and literature

* George Washington Lambert's portrait, '' Mrs Annie Murdoch'' wins the Archibald Prize

Sport

*27 August – Ronald McMurdo wins the men's national marathon title, clocking 3:06:23 in Sydney. The race was not considered an official Australian championship by the national athletics federation.
*17 September - The 1927 NSWRFL season culminates in South Sydney's 20–11 victory over St. George in the final.
*24 September – Collingwood become premiers of the 1927 VFL season, defeating Richmond 2.13 (25) to 1.7 (13) in the 1927 grand final.
*1 November – ''Trivalve'' wins the Melbourne Cup.
* South Australia wins the Sheffield Shield

Births

* 20 January – Dawn Lake, entertainer (died 2006)
* 21 January – Clive Churchill, rugby league player (died 1985)
* 23 January – Fred Williams, painter and printmaker (died 1982)
* 18 March – Max Bingham, politician (died 2021)
* 20 March – Wally Grout, cricket player (died 1968)
* 1 April – Peter Cundall, horticulturist and television presenter (died 2021)
* 15 April – Bob Ellicott, lawyer, politician and judge (died 2022)
* 1 May – Michael Charlton, journalist and broadcaster
*30 May – Billy Wilson, St George rugby league captain (died 1993)
* 6 June – Alan Seymour, playwright (died 2015)
* 10 June – Bede Morris, immunologist (died 1988)
* 13 June – David Kirkpatrick (Slim Dusty), country and western singer (died 2003)
* 3 July – Peter Muller, architect
* 6 July – Alan Freeman, Australian-born broadcaster (d. 2006)
* 13 July – Ian Reed, discus thrower (died 2020)
* 16 July – Geoffrey Martin, Australian rules footballer (died 2020)
* 17 July – Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, Australian-English dentist and politician
* 14 August – Sid Patterson, cyclist (died 1999)
* 24 August – David Ireland, novelist (died 2022)
* 22 September – Hal Nerdal, skier
* 29 October – Frank Sedgman, tennis player
* 10 November – Richard Connolly, composer and ABC personality (died 2022)
* 11 November – Jack Absalom, artist, author and adventurer (died 2019)
* 14 November – Bart Cummings, Australia's Best Racehorse Trainer (12 Melbourne Cup wins) (died 2015)
* 28 December – Ron Casey, Australian rules football administrator and media personality (died 2000)

Deaths

* 7 January – Robert Jones, Irish-born Australian politician (born 1845)
* 15 March – Hector Rason, Premier of Western Australia (born 1858)
* 31 March – Paris Nesbit, lawyer (born 1852)
* 2 April – Edward Davies, architect (born 1852)
* 26 October – Squizzy Taylor, gangster (born 1888)
* 13 December – Stephen Henry Parker, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia (born 1846)

See also

* List of Australian films of the 1920s

References

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