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The following lists events that happened during1902 in Australia.

1902 in Australia
Monarch	Edward VII
Governor-General	John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun
Prime minister	Edmund Barton
Population	3,845,265
Elections	South Australia,Victoria,Queensland

In 1902 women were finally allowed to vote and stand in federal elections.

Incumbents

Edmund Barton

State premiers

Premier of New South Wales –John See
Premier of South Australia –John Jenkins
Premier of Queensland –Robert Philp
Premier of Tasmania –Elliott Lewis
Premier of Western Australia –George Leake (until 1 July), thenWalter James
Premier of Victoria –Alexander Peacock (until 10 June), thenWilliam Irvine

State governors

Governor of New South Wales –Admiral Harry Rawson (from 27 May)
Governor of South Australia –Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (until 17 July)
Governor of Queensland –Major General Sir Herbert Chermside (from 24 March)
Governor of Tasmania –Captain Sir Arthur Havelock
Governor of Western Australia –Sir Arthur Lawley (until 14 August)
Governor of Victoria –Sir George Clarke

Events

7 February – TheWaterside Workers Federation is formed.
April – Averaged over Australia, the driest month on record with only 3.74 millimetres (0.15 in).^[1] Over half the continent was absolutely rainless and less than 3 percent outside Tasmania had more than 10 millimetres (0.39 in).^[2]
31 May – TheSecond Boer War, in which Australia is involved, ends.
12 June – TheCommonwealth Franchise Act granted mostAustralian women the right to vote and stand in federal elections.
31 July – Acoal gas explosion kills 96 in theMount Kembla mining disaster
1 August –New Idea magazine is first published.
3 November –Postmaster-General James Drake opens a submarine telegraph cable fromSouthport, Queensland toVancouver, British Columbia,Canada, completing aBritish Empire communications line.
18 December – The mayors of Sydney and Melbourne are conferred the title ofLord Mayor
26 December –Brisbane is declared a city.
26 December –Ada Evans becomes the first female law graduate in Australia.
As a culmination of theFederation Drought, this was by raw totals the driest calendar year averaged over Australia since 1890^[3] with only 314.46 millimetres (12.38 in)^[4] (though by area-averaged meandecile it was only eleventh driest).^[5]

Unknown dates

The world's first successful pyritic smelting takes place atMount Lyell,Tasmania

Arts and literature

Main article:1902 in Australian literature

17 September – Opera singerNellie Melba arrives inBrisbane for her first Australian tour after 16 years in Europe.
James White wins theWynne Prize with his bronze sculptureIn Defence of the Flat

Sport

27 September –Collingwood wins the1902 VFL grand final, defeatingEssendon 9.6 (60) to 3.9 (27) at the first final to be held at theMelbourne Cricket Ground before a record crowd of 35,000.
11 November –The Victory wins theMelbourne Cup
New South Wales wins theSheffield Shield

Births

15 January –Dan Dempsey, rugby league footballer (d. 1960)
25 February –Vince Gair, politician (d. 1980)
2 May –Alan Marshall, writer (d. 1984)
22 May –Leslie Herron, Chief Justice of NSW (d. 1973)
12 July –Vic Armbruster, rugby league footballer (d. 1984)
17 July –Christina Stead, writer (d. 1983)
28 July –Albert Namatjira, painter (d. 1959)

Deaths

27 February –Breaker Morant, convicted military officer, bush poet and drover (born in theUnited Kingdom and died inSouth Africa) (b.1864)
6 March –Frederick William Piesse, Tasmanian politician (b.1848)
24 June –George Leake, 3rdPremier of Western Australia (b.1856)

See also

1902
1900–1909

References

^Sorted rainfall over Australia for all months
^April 1902 rainfall totals
^Australian Bureau of Meteorology National Climate Centre;Annual Climate Summary 2000, p. 1
^Australian Bureau of Meteorology;Sorted annual rainfall over Australia
^Smith, Ian; "An assessment of recent trends in Australian rainfall"; inAustralian Meteorological Magazine; issue 53 (2004); pp. 163-173

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