1930 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1930 in Australia.

Incumbents

Monarch – George V
Governor-General – John Baird, Baronet of Stonehaven
Prime Minister – James Scullin
Chief Justice – Adrian Knox then Isaac Isaacs

State premiers

Premier of New South Wales – Thomas Bavin, then Jack Lang
Premier of Queensland – Arthur Edward Moore
Premier of South Australia – Richard Layton Butler, then Lionel Hill
Premier of Tasmania – John McPhee
Premier of Victoria – Edmond Hogan
Premier of Western Australia – Philip Collier, then Sir James Mitchell

State governors

Events

11 November – The Shrine of Remembrance in Brisbane is dedicated.

Sport

6 January – Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings.
25 January – Harry Hopman and Jack Crawford win the Australian Doubles Championship at Kooyong, Victoria.
4 October - The 1930 NSWRFL season culminates in Western Suburbs' 27–2 victory over St. George in the premiership final, marking Western Suburbs' first premiership since the club was founded in 1908.
11 October - The VFL Grand Final was won by the Collingwood Football Club, defeating the Geelong Football Club by 30 points, establishing an as yet unbeaten record in consecutive premierships in Australian Rules football's premier league.,
4 November – Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup.
The Australia national rugby league team completed the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.

Births

January - February

11 January
* Ron Mulock, 10th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
* Rod Taylor, actor
12 January – Ewan Cameron, Victorian politician
14 January – Joy McKean, country singer-songwriter
19 January – Don Kendell, businessman
21 January – Arthur Tonkin, Western Australian politician
23 January – Mervyn Rose, tennis player
26 January – Richard Killen, New South Wales politician
28 January – A. David Buckingham, chemist
9 February – Robert Bropho, Indigenous rights activist and convicted sex offender
12 February – Jim Ramsay, Victorian politician
15 February – Bruce Dawe, poet
21 February – Elsa Klensch, journalist and television presenter
22 February – Max Smith, New South Wales politician
26 February – Les McMahon, New South Wales politician
27 February – Joe Riordan, New South Wales politician
27 February – Diane Holland, actress

March - April

1 March – Doris Goddard, cabaret singer and actress
4 March – John Toohey, High Court justice
5 March – John Miles, Victorian politician
11 March – Geoffrey Blainey, historian
14 March – Ray Flockton, cricketer
18 March – Joan Chambers, Victorian politician
19 March – Pat Hanlon, Queensland politician
23 March – Owen Harries, academic and magazine editor
29 March – John Marshall, Olympic swimmer
30 March – Rolf Harris, entertainer, musician and convicted sex offender
5 April – Bob Fell, Victorian politician
11 April
* John Hyde, Australian rules footballer
* Peter Toogood, golfer
12 April
* John Landy, 26th Governor of Victoria and Olympic athlete
* Nancy Lyons, Olympic swimmer
13 April – Dorothy Isaksen, New South Wales politician
14 April – Kevin Humphreys, rugby league player
20 April – Gordon Hamilton Fairley, surgeon and oncologist
24 April – Ken Muggleston, set decorator

May - June

4 May – Colin Hughes, academic and public servant
7 May – Tom McVeigh, Queensland politician
9 May – Bob Brown, motorcyclist
15 May – Haddon Storey, Victorian politician
16 May – Brian Davies, rugby league footballer
21 May
* Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
* Syd Slocomb, Australian rules footballer
24 May
* Tony Bull, Australian rules footballer
* Barry Downs, Olympic sports shooter
30 May – Sever Sternhell, academic, and organic chemist
9 June
* Terry Norris, Victorian politician and actor
* David Wordsworth, Western Australian politician
11 June – Neale Lavis, Olympic equestrian
12 June
* Jim Burke, cricketer
* Dugald Munro, New South Wales politician
14 June – Lorna Fejo, member of the stolen generations
16 June – Malcolm Brooks, New South Wales politician
18 June – Roger Johnston, Victorian politician
25 June – Alf Hughes, Australian rules footballer

July - August

1 July – Jack Hedley, Australian rules footballer
2 July – Ron Grey, senior army officer and commissioner of the Australian Federal Police
6 July
* Michael Baume, New South Wales politician
* Tom Hynd, Queensland politician
10 July
* Harold Allison, South Australian politician
* John Green, botanist
14 July
* Stan Evans, South Australian politician
* Ray Martini, Australian rules footballer
17 July – Sir William Heseltine, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
18 July – Judy Gamin, Queensland politician
20 July – Bryan Conquest, Queensland politician
26 July – Johno Johnson, New South Wales politician
30 July
* Bobby Dimond, rugby league footballer
* Al Lawrence, Olympic runner
31 July – John Freebairn, South Australian politician
2 August – Vali Myers, visionary artist, dancer, bohemian and muse
2 August – Peter Lehmann, wine producer
22 August – Brian Bannon, New South Wales politician
24 August – Paul Mooney, rugby union player

September - October

9 September
* Francis Carroll, archbishop
* Lon Hatherell, rugby union player
* Jack Lihou, cricketer
11 September – Clifford Grant, operatic singer
22 September – Donald MacMillan, rugby union player
29 September – Richard Bonynge, conductor and pianist
4 October – Keith Batchelor, Australian rules footballer
6 October – Richie Benaud, cricketer and commentator
11 October – Ian Foreman, Australian rules footballer
22 October – Sir Frank Lowy, businessman
31 October – Bill Hewitt, Queensland politician

November - December

14 November – Ray Land, Olympic sprinter
15 November – Ray Thorburn, New South Wales politician
18 November – Geoff Williams, Australian rules footballer
21 November – Eddie Stapleton, rugby union player
27 November – Dick Poole, rugby league player
28 November – Kate Baxter, fencer
29 November – Max Evans, Western Australian politician
30 November – John Newham, 16th Chief of the Air Staff
1 December – Dame Marie Bashir, 37th Governor of New South Wales
3 December
* John Coulter, South Australian politician
* Daryl E. Hooper, electronic engineer
4 December – Sir Donald Trescowthick, businessman
5 December
* Lionel Cox, Olympic track cyclist
* Brian Tobin, tennis player and executive
8 December
* June Craig, Western Australian politician
* Doug Ricketson, rugby league player
17 December – Dorothy Rowe, psychologist
19 December – Richard Scotton, health economist
20 December – Noel Ferrier, actor
29 December – Lilliane Brady, Mayor of Cobar
31 December – Phil O'Brien, Australian rules footballer

Deaths

14 January – John Bisdee, military officer and Victoria Cross recipient
18 January – Brailsford Robertson, physiologist and biochemist
3 March – Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, 12th Governor of South Australia
19 March – Sir Henry Lefroy, 11th Premier of Western Australia
22 April – John Russell, impressionist painter
21 May – Robert Cook, Victorian politician
27 May – Jethro Brown, jurist and professor of law
6 July – Margaret Francis Ellen Baskerville, sculptor, water colourist, and educator
27 July – George James Coates, artist
20 August
* Charles Bannerman, cricketer
* John Brazier, malacologist
2 September – Archibald Strong, scholar and poet
11 September – William Carpenter, Western Australian politician
19 September – Sir Neville Howse, New South Wales politician, military officer and first Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
1 October
* Albert Henry Fullwood, artist
* Sir James McCay, Victorian politician and soldier
30 October – John Creed, New South Wales politician and doctor
13 November – Thomas Bulch, musician and composer
14 November – Sandy Pearce, rugby league player
16 December – Octavius Beale, piano manufacturer and philanthropist