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Australian ountry 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 Advisory Committee (FCAC) to supervise Canberra's construction (Chicago architect Walter Burley Griffin won the competiotion to design Canberra in 1912)
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ANTAS formed by Hudson Fysh, P.J. McGuinnes and Fergus McMaster.
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Edith Cowan is the first woman 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 form a Nationlist-Country Party coalition government with Earle Page and becomes the Australian 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 federal elections is made compulsory.
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Oakly 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 begins production in Australia
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The Duke of York opens Parliamant House in Canberra.
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Berk Hinkler lands in Darwin and becomes the first person to fly solo from England to Australia.
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Royal Flying Doctor Service begins operating from Cloncurry in Queensland.
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Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm complete a flight across the Pacific.
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The crash of the 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 Australian-born Labour Prime Minister.
