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Australian Country Party founded and League of Nations comes into force with Australia as an original member.
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The government appoints the Federal Capital Advistory Committee (FCAC) to supervise Canberra's construction (Chicago architect Walter Burley Griffin won the competition to design Canberra in 1912
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Qantas formed by Hudson Fysh, P.J. McGuinness and Fergus McMaster.
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Edith Cowan is the first women to become a member of an Australian parliament.
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Henry Lawson dies.
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The Smith family welfare organisation is founded in Sydney.
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce forms a Nationalist-Country party coalition government with Earle Page and becomes the Australia Prime Minister.
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Victorian police strike resulting in two days of riots in streets of Melbourne.
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Voting in Australian federal elections is made compulsory.
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Oakley and Parkes win the FCAC competition to design houses for Canberra's future suburbs.
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J.T. (Jack) Lang becomes the Premier of New South Wales.
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New South Wales' first electric train service begins.
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General Motors ebgins production in Australia.
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The Duke of york opens Parliament House in Camberra.
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Bert Hinkler land in Darwin and becomes the first person to fly solo from Engliand to Australia.
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Royal Flying Doctor Service begins operating from Cloncurry in Queensland.
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Charles kingford Smith and Charles Ulm complete flight across the Pacific Ocean.
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The crash of Wall Street Stock Exchange in New York marks the beginning of the Great Depression.
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Labour Party is elected with James Scullin as the first Australia- born Labor Prime Minster.
