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