1925 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1925 in Australia.

Incumbents

Monarch – George V
Governor-General – Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster then John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven
Prime Minister – Stanley Bruce
Chief Justice – Adrian Knox

State premiers

Premier of New South Wales – George Fuller, then Jack Lang
Premier of Queensland – Ted Theodore, then William Gillies, then William McCormack
Premier of South Australia – John Gunn
Premier of Tasmania – Joseph Lyons
Premier of Victoria – John Allan
Premier of Western Australia – Philip Collier

State governors

Events

26 January – Australia's oldest commercial radio station, 2UE, begins broadcasting in Sydney.
20 May – The Murrumbidgee River floods for eight days killing four people, as up to falls in its upper catchment.
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 at Acton and at Duntroon Military College.
3 June – A general election is held in Tasmania. The Labor Party|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 Rabbitohs|South Sydney] record the only perfect season in NSWRFL history, winning all twelve of their matches.
26 September – Geelong defeats Collingwood 10.19 to 9.15, becoming premiers of the 1925 VFL season.
3 November – Windbag wins the Melbourne Cup.

Births

14 January – Ray Wilkie, meteorologist
8 February – Francis Webb, poet
10 February – Basil Hennessy, archaeologist
11 February – George Avery, Olympic triple jumper
12 February – Ted Innes, politician
17 February – Joy Nichols, comedian and actress
20 February – Pat Lanigan, public servant
19 March – Creighton Burns, journalist and editor-in-chief of The Age
27 March – Ian Robinson, politician
4 April – Dorothy Alison, actress
21 April – Anthony Mason, Chief Justice of the High Court
2 May – Lou Rowan, Test cricket match umpire
19 May – Brian Moll, character actor, director and producer
24 May – Alfred Parsons, diplomat
3 June – David Evans, air marshal
4 June – Peter Benjamin Graham, artist
3 July – Terry Moriarty, Australian rules footballer
6 July – Ruth Cracknell, actor
18 July
*Raymond Jones, architect
*Shirley Strickland, athlete
26 July – Neil O'Reilly, Australian rules footballer
19 August – Laurie Sawle, cricketer
21 August – Don Chipp, politician and founder of the Australian Democrats
24 August – Duncan Hall, rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s
27 August – Fred Emery, psychologist
27 August – Ken Grieves, cricketer
27 August – Bill Neilson, Premier of Tasmania
24 September – Harry Jenkins (senior), politician
4 October – Renfrey Potts, mathematician
5 October – Murray Riley, Olympic rower
18 October – Thomas Millar, historian
24 October – Ken Mackay, cricketer
5 November – Rhonda Small, filmmaker
17 November – Charles Mackerras, conductor
23 November – James Killen, politician
10 December – Norm McDonald, Australian rules footballer

Deaths

24 January – William Aitcheson Haswell, zoologist
4 February – Richard Godfrey Rivers, artist
23 February – John Holman, Western Australian politician
1 March – John Ferguson, minister
16 April – Thomas McCawley, 5th Chief Justice of Queensland
20 April – Rose Scott, suffragette
28 April – Sir Richard Butler, 23rd Premier of South Australia
22 June – Matthew Gibney, bishop
27 June – Simpson Newland, South Australian politician, pastoralist and author
18 July – Edward Russell, Victorian politician
26 July – William Trenwith, 1st Leader of the Victorian Labor Party
30 August – Magnus Cromarty, New South Wales politician
5 September – Reginald Augustus Frederick Murray, geologist and surveyor
6 or 8 September– Louisa Briggs, Aboriginal Australian rights activist, dormitory matron, midwife and nurse recognized as five apical ancestors from whom Boonwurrung descent is established
28 September – Joseph Brown, Victorian politician
3 October – Charles Web Gilbert, sculptor
24 October – Charles Kenningham, opera singer and actor
4 November – Paddy Hannan, prospector
13 November – Charles McDonald, Queensland politician
16 November – Joseph Maiden, botanist