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Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	1921 in Australian literature Other events of 1921 Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during1921 in Australia.

• Monarch –George V
• Governor-General –Henry Forster
• Prime Minister –Billy Hughes
• Chief Justice –Adrian Knox

• Premier of New South Wales –John Storey (until 5 October), thenJames Dooley (from 10 October until 20 December), thenGeorge Fuller (for 7 hours on 20 December), thenJames Dooley
• Premier of Queensland –Ted Theodore
• Premier of South Australia –Henry Barwell
• Premier of Tasmania –Walter Lee
• Premier of Victoria –Harry Lawson
• Premier of Western Australia –James Mitchell

• Governor of New South Wales –Sir Walter Davidson
• Governor of Queensland –Sir Matthew Nathan
• Governor of South Australia –Sir William Weigall
• Governor of Tasmania –Sir William Allardyce
• Governor of Victoria –George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke (from 21 February)
• Governor of Western Australia –Sir Francis Newdegate

• March –Group Settlement Scheme begins atManjimup, Western Australia.
• 7 March – TheCommonwealth Department of Health is formed.
• 12 March –Edith Cowan becomes the first female parliamentarian in Australia, when she is elected to theWestern Australian Legislative Council.
• 22 March –New South Wales MPPercy Brookfield is shot and killed when he tackles a crazed gunman at the train station inRiverton, South Australia.
• 31 March – TheRoyal Australian Air Force is established.^[1]
• 9 May – Australia assumes responsibility for administration of theTerritory of New Guinea, following aLeague of Nationsmandate divesting Germany of its colonies as required by theTreaty of Versailles.
• 30 August – Ageneral election is held inVictoria.Harry Lawson of theNationalist Party is returned as premier, although in a minority government.
• 26 October – The first group ofBarnardo's Boys arrived inSydney.
• 3 November – Federal MPWalter Marks told the House of Representatives that Armageddon would occur in 1934.^[2]
• 13 November – The cartoon characterGinger Meggs makes his first appearance, in aSunday Sun comic strip "Us Fellers" drawn by cartoonistJimmy Bancks.
• 30 December – Twelve-year-old Alma Tirtschke is raped and murdered inMelbourne, in what becomes known asthe Gun Alley Murder.
• 31 December –Walter Burley Griffin is removed as director of construction forCanberra after disagreements over his supervisory role.

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• William McInnes wins the inauguralArchibald Prize forportraiture
• Droving into the light –Hans Heysen
• Weighing the fleece –George W Lambert
• The White Glove –George W Lambert

The first silent film

• Sister Olive wins theMelbourne Cup
• New South Wales wins theSheffield Shield
• In Test Cricket, Australia defeated England inThe Ashes series
• A Le Fevre wins theAustralian Open Championship in golf
• The1921 VFL seasonThe Premiership is won by Richmond 5.6.36 to Carlton 4.8.32. Attendance 43,122 at the MCG.
• The1921 NSWRFL season sees the introduction of theSt. George club, replacingAnnandale, who departed the league after the 1920 season. The Premiership is won byNorth Sydney.

• 3 January
  • Bob Dawson, Australian rules footballer (died 2023)
  • Vasey Houghton, politician and conservationist (died 2001)
• 9 January –Bunney Brooke, actor (Number 96) (died 2000)
• 3 February –John Millett, poet (died 2019)
• 16 February –Bill Knott, NSW politician (died 2013)
• 21 February –Rupert Myers, metallurgist (died 2019)
• 4 March –Walter Campbell, Governor of Queensland (died 2004)
• 12 March –Norm Foster, politician (died 2006)
• 28 April –Robert Furlonger, diplomat and public servant (died 2019)
• 29 March –Sam Loxton, cricketer (died 2011)
• 1 April –Harold James Frith, ornithologist (died 1982)
• 13 April –Max Harris, writer (Angry Penguins) (died 1995)
• 16 April –Guy Warren, painter (died 2024)
• 13 May –George Petersen, Labor politician (died 2000)
• 23 May –Ray Lawler, playwright (died 2024)
• 26 May –Norman Hetherington, artist, puppeteer (died 2010)
• 28 May –Tom Uren, Labor politician (died 2015)
• 3 June –Forbes Carlile, swimming coach and Olympic pentathlete (died 2016)
• 7 June –Myrtle Edwards, cricketer and softball player (died 2010)
• 19 June –Patricia Wrightson, children's author (died 2010)
• 1 July –Teddy Long, Australian rules footballer (died 2008)
• 15 July –Barrie Dexter, senior diplomat (died 2018)
• 21 July –Mary MacLean Hindmarsh, botanist (died 2000)^[3]
• 22 July –Ronald N. Bracewell, physicist and radio astronomer (died 2007)
• 31 July –John Makepeace Bennett, computer scientist (died 2010)
• 9 August –Catherine Pym, fencer (died 2018)
• 20 August –Jack Wilson, cricketer (died 1985)
• 21 November –Betty Wilson, cricketer (died 2010)
• 24 November –Allan Ashbolt, journalist (died 2005)
• 26 December –Donald Horne, journalist and writer (died 2005)

• 14 January –Edward Hamersley, Western Australian politician and pastoralist (born inFrance) (b.1835)
• 27 January –Maurice Buckley, soldier (b.1891)
• 26 February –William Emmett Murphy, trade unionist (born inIreland) (b.1841)
• 14 March –Gustave Barnes, artist (born in theUnited Kingdom) (b.1877)
• 21 May –Oswald Watt, aviator and businessman (born in theUnited Kingdom) (b.1878)
• 3 June –Jim Page, Queensland politician (born in theUnited Kingdom) (b.1861)
• 6 June –William Mark Forster, philanthropist (born in theUnited Kingdom) (b.1846)
• 18 June –G. H. Gibson, writer and satirist (born in theUnited Kingdom) (b.1846)
• 2 July –Edwin Evans, cricketer (b.1849)
• 12 July –Harry Hawker, aviation pioneer (died in theUnited Kingdom) (b.1889)
• 26 July –Howard Vernon, actor (b.1845)
• 1 August –T. J. Ryan, 19thPremier of Queensland (b.1876)
• 7 August –Rose Ann Creal, military nurse, recipient ofRoyal Red Cross medal (b.1865)
• 23 August –Frank Hann, pastoralist and explorer (born in theUnited Kingdom) (b.1845)
• 13 September –James Hebblethwaite, poet (born in theUnited Kingdom) (b.1857)
• 5 October –John Storey, 20thPremier of New South Wales (b.1869)
• 30 October –James Murdoch, Orientalist scholar and journalist (born in theUnited Kingdom) (b.1856)
• 6 November –Robert Logan Jack, geologist (born in theUnited Kingdom) (b.1845)
• 17 November –John McLaren, cricketer (b.1886)
• 27 November -Mary Grant Roberts, zoo owner (b.1841)^[4]
• 24 December –William Curran, cricketer (b.1862)

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