← 1891 1890 1889 1892 in Australia → 1893 1894 1895
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1892 Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during1892 in Australia.

• Premier of New South Wales –George Dibbs
• Premier of South Australia –Thomas Playford II (until 21 June),Frederick Holder (until 15 October), thenJohn Downer
• Premier of Queensland –Samuel Griffith
• Premier of Tasmania –Philip Fysh (until 17 August) thenHenry Dobson
• Premier of Western Australia –John Forrest
• Premier of Victoria –James Munro (until 16 February), thenWilliam Shiels

• Governor of New South Wales –Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey
• Governor of Queensland –Henry Wylie Norman
• Governor of South Australia –Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
• Governor of Tasmania –Robert Hamilton until 30 November, vacant thereafter
• Governor of Victoria –John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
• Governor of Western Australia –William C. F. Robinson

• 20 April –Victoria holds a general election.
• 23 May –Frederick Deeming hanged atMelbourne Gaol having been unsuccessfully defended by the lawyerAlfred Deakin.^[1] Deeming was accused of committing a series of crimes on three continents –theft,perjury,fraud,bigamy andmurder; he used at least 20aliases.
• 10 October –Jackie Howe shears a total of 321 sheep in 7 hours and 40 minutes atBlackall, Queensland, a record for hand shears that still stands.^[2]
• 1 January – Physical Culture (Physie) started in Australia.

• 5 October – the Australian Cricket Council announces anintercolonial cricket competition to be known as theSheffield Shield.
• Glenloth wins theMelbourne Cup
• Collingwood Football Club was founded

• 13 April –Gladys Moncrieff (died 1976), singer
• 20 April –Grace Cossington Smith, (died 1984), artist
• 6 July –John Simpson Kirkpatrick (died 1915), World War IANZAC known as "the man with the donkey"[1]
• 7 August – SirArthur Coles (died 1982), businessman and philanthropist
• 24 November – SirDaniel McVey (died 1972), public servant^[3]
• 8 December –Bert Hinkler (died 1933), aviator

• 10 May –Barcroft Boake (born 1866), poet
• 7 November –John Morphett (born 1809), explorer, settler and politician

• 1892 in Australia
• Years of the 19th century in Australia

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