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QANTAS was founded on this date.
On the 3rd of December, 1920, the first flight from Melbourne to Perth was succesful. -
It was established in 1921 and The Commonwealth Health Department's first minister was Sir Walter Massey-Green.
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Edith Cowan was the first woman to be elected to an Australian Parliament. (In Perth)
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He won the First Archibald Prize for a portrait of the architect H. Debrowe Annear.
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2 people drown in Melbournes worst floods since 1891.
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The first cabinet meeting held in Canberra.
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In Melbourne the Federal Police force was established
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31 People died in bushfires in the Yarra Velley and Gippsland.
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Duke of York officially opens Parliament House.
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The Wall Street stock market in New York crashed. Prices fell, unemployement rose and Australia's big cities were depopulated as thousands of men went to the countryside to look for work.
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