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← 1924 1923 1922 1925 in Australia → 1926 1927 1928
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1925 Federal election Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1925 in Australia.

Incumbents

Stanley Bruce

• 
  Monarch – King George V
  


• 
  Governor-General – Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster (until 8 October) then John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven
  


• 
  Prime Minister – Stanley Bruce
  


• 
  Chief Justice – Adrian Knox
  

State premiers

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  Premier of New South Wales – George Fuller (until 17 June), then Jack Lang
  


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  Premier of Queensland – Ted Theodore (until 26 February), then William Gillies (until 22 October), then William McCormack
  


• 
  Premier of South Australia – John Gunn
  


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  Premier of Tasmania – Joseph Lyons
  


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  Premier of Victoria – John Allan
  


• 
  Premier of Western Australia – Philip Collier
  

State governors

• 
  Governor of New South Wales – Sir Dudley de Chair
  


• 
  Governor of Queensland – Sir Matthew Nathan (until 17 September)


• 
  Governor of South Australia – Sir Tom Bridges
  


• 
  Governor of Tasmania – Sir James O'Grady
  


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  Governor of Victoria – George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke
  


• 
  Governor of Western Australia – Sir William Campion
  

Events

• 26 January – Australia's oldest commercial radio station, 2UE, begins broadcasting in Sydney.^[1]
  


• 20 May – The Murrumbidgee River floods for eight days killing four people,^[2] as up to 500 millimetres (20 in) falls in its upper catchment.^[3]
  


• 30 May – Millicent Preston-Stanley becomes the first woman member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.


• 1 to 31 May – Canberra records its wettest month on record with 339.4 millimetres (13.36 in) at Acton^[4] and 297.4 millimetres (11.71 in) at Duntroon Military College.^[5]
  


• 3 June – A general election is held in Tasmania. The Labor government of Joseph Lyons is returned in a landslide victory.


• 9 June – Ten people are killed in a derailment near Traveston railway station, Queensland
  


• 1 September – Thomas Blamey becomes Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police.

Science and technology

• The Cactoblastis moth is introduced in Queensland to control prickly pear cactus.

Arts and literature

• 
  John Longstaff wins the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Maurice Moscovitch

Sport

• Victoria wins the Sheffield Shield
  


• 2 May – Footscray, Hawthorn and North Melbourne play their initial Victorian Football League matches.


• 8 August – South Sydney record the only perfect season in NSWRFL history, winning all twelve of their matches.


• 26 September – Geelong defeats Collingwood 10.19 (79) to 9.15 (69), becoming premiers of the 1925 VFL season.


• 3 November – Windbag wins the Melbourne Cup.

Births

• 8 February – Francis Webb, poet (died 1973)


• 10 February – Basil Hennessy, archaeologist


• 11 February – George Avery, Olympic triple jumper


• 17 February – Joy Nichols, comedian and actress


• 19 March – Creighton Burns, journalist and editor-in-chief of The Age (died 2008)


• 4 April – Dorothy Alison, actress (died 1992)


• 21 April – Anthony Mason, Chief Justice of the High Court


• 4 June – Peter Benjamin Graham, artist (died 1987)


• 6 July – Ruth Cracknell, actor (died 2002)


• 18 July – Shirley Strickland, athlete (died 2004)


• 19 August – Laurie Sawle, cricketer


• 21 August – Don Chipp, politician and founder of the Australian Democrats (died 2006)


• 24 August – Duncan Hall, rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s (died 2011)


• 27 August – Fred Emery, psychologist (died 1997)


• 27 August – Ken Grieves, cricketer (died 1992)


• 27 August – Bill Neilson, Premier of Tasmania (1975–1977) (died 1989)


• 24 September – Harry Jenkins (senior), politician (died 2004)


• 4 October – Renfrey Potts, mathematician (died 2005)


• 18 October – Thomas Millar, historian (died 1994)


• 24 October – Ken Mackay, cricketer (died 1982)


• 17 November – Charles Mackerras, conductor


• 23 November – James Killen, politician (died 2007)


• 10 December – Norm McDonald, Australian rules footballer (died 2002)

Deaths

• 24 January – William Aitcheson Haswell (born 1854), zoologist


• 4 February – Richard Godfrey Rivers (born 1859), artist


• 23 February – John Holman (born 1872), West Australian politician


• 1 March – Rev. John Ferguson (born 1852), Presbyterian minister


• 16 April – Thomas McCawley (born 1881), Chief Justice of Queensland


• 20 April – Rose Scott (born 1847), social reformer


• 28 April – Richard Butler (born 1850), Premier of South Australia (1905)


• 1 May – Arthur McCabe (born 1887), Olympic rugby union player


• 22 June – Matthew Gibney (born 1835), Catholic bishop who gave last rites to Ned Kelly


• 27 June – Simpson Newland (born 1835), Murray River pioneer


• 18 July – Edward Russell (born 1878), Victorian politician


• 26 July – William Trenwith (born 1846), trade unionist


• 3 August – William Bruce (born 1864), cricketer


• 30 August – Magnus Cromarty (born 1875), NSW politician


• 5 September – Reginald Augustus Frederick Murray (born 1846), geologist


• 28 September – Joseph Brown (born 1844), politician


• 3 October – Charles Web Gilbert (born 1867), sculptor


• 24 October – Charles Kenningham (born 1860), English opera singer


• 4 November – Paddy Hannan (born 1840), gold prospector


• 13 November – Charles McDonald (born 1860), politician


• 16 November – Joseph Maiden (born 1859), botanist

See also

• List of Australian films of the 1920s

References