• Source: 1937 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1937 in Australia.




Incumbents



Monarch – George VI
Governor-General – Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
Prime Minister – Joseph Lyons
Chief Justice – Sir John Latham




= State Premiers

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Premier of New South Wales – Bertram Stevens
Premier of Queensland – William Forgan Smith
Premier of South Australia – Richard L. Butler
Premier of Tasmania – Albert Ogilvie
Premier of Victoria – Albert Dunstan
Premier of Western Australia – John Willcock




= State Governors

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Governor of New South Wales – John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst (from 8 April)
Governor of Queensland – Sir Leslie Orme Wilson
Governor of South Australia – Sir Winston Dugan
Governor of Tasmania – Sir Ernest Clark
Governor of Victoria – William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield
Governor of Western Australia – none appointed




Events


9 February – Cairns is hit by a tropical cyclone.
15 February – An explosion kills 13 men at the State Coal Mine in Wonthaggi, Victoria.
20 February – A general election is held in Tasmania. The incumbent Labor government led by Albert Ogilvie is returned to power.
1 March – Bernard O'Reilly locates the wreckage of an Airlines of Australia Stinson airliner, VH-UHH City of Brisbane, in the McPherson Range in southern Queensland. Two survivors are rescued, five others did not survive.
20 April – Regular airmail services begin between Australia and the USA.
21-23 April - The first conference of Commonwealth and State Aboriginal authorities is held in Canberra. The conference sees several resolutions pass with the aim of assimilating Australian Aboriginals (excluding those deemed full-blooded) in white culture.
23 October – The ACTU calls on the government to boycott trade with Japan, following the Japanese invasion of China.




Arts and literature



24 June – The Commonwealth Literature Censorship Board replaces the Book Censorship Advisory Committee, and temporarily lifts the ban on Ulysses by James Joyce.
Sunbaker by photographer Max Dupain




Sport


3 March – Captained by Don Bradman, Australia defeats England in the Fifth Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, retaining The Ashes.
25 September – Geelong become premiers of the 1937 VFL season, defeating Collingwood 18.14 (122) to 12.18 (90).
19 November – Hubert Opperman completes an epic bicycle ride from Fremantle, Western Australia to Sydney, taking 13 days, 10 hours and 11 minutes.
Eastern Suburbs win the premiership in a shortened 1937 NSWRFL season. University finish in last place for the fourth year in a row, and voluntarily withdraw from the premiership at the end of the season.




Births


16 January – Lorraine Bayly, actor
19 January – John Lions, computer scientist and academic (died 1998)
21 January
Peter Gallagher, rugby league footballer (died 2003)
Michael Beahan, Labor Senator for Western Australia (died 2022)
25 January – John Watson, Liberal Senator for Tasmania
4 February – John Devitt, Olympic swimmer (died 2023)
19 February
Lee Harding, science fiction writer (died 2023)
Colin Ridgway, NFL American footballer (died 1993)
20 February – Robert Evans, minister and amateur astronomer (died 2022)
21 February – Ron Clarke, Olympic athlete (died 2015)
3 March – Kevin O'Halloran, Olympic swimmer (died 1976)
7 April – Louise Faulkner, missing woman
13 April – Col Joye, entertainer
19 April – Lindsay Fox, businessman
27 May – Peter Pinne, writer and composer
1 June – Colleen McCullough, novelist (died 2015)
11 June – Robin Warren, Nobel Prize-winning pathologist
7 July Jocelyn Newman, politician (died 2018)
26 July
Alan Cadman, politician
Guy Green, Governor of Tasmania (1995–2003)
28 August – Tony Marchant, Olympic track cyclist
1 September – Ian Callinan, High Court judge
4 September – Dawn Fraser, Olympic swimmer
17 September – Gary Chapman, Olympic swimmer (died 1978)
18 September – Barry Muir, rugby league footballer (died 2022)
3 October – John Hodges, Minister for Immigration (1982–1983) (died 2024)
7 October – Colin Guest, cricketer (died 2018)
10 October – Bruce Devlin, golfer
21 November – John Kerin, politician (died 2023)
12 December
Michael Jeffery, Governor-General of Australia (died 2020)
Judy Tegart, tennis player
17 December – Kerry Packer, businessman (died 2005)




Deaths



11 February – Walter Burley Griffin, architect of Canberra (born in the United States and died in India) (b. 1876)
18 March – Walter Wilson Froggatt, geologist and economic entomologist (b. 1858)
7 May – Christina Jane Corrie, Queensland politician and suffragette (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1867)
9 June – Charles Chewings, geologist and anthropologist (b. 1859)
10 July – Thomas Brentnall, accountant and musician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1846)
22 July – Ted McDonald, cricketer and Australian rules footballer (Essendon, Fitzroy) (died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1891)
28 July – Sir George Hyde, 7th Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1877)
14 August – Bruce Smith, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1851)
28 August – George Prendergast, 28th Premier of Victoria (b. 1854)
28 September – William Ramsay Smith, physician and anthropologist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1859)
2 October – Sir Granville Ryrie, New South Wales politician, diplomat and soldier (b. 1865)
8 October – Dame Eadith Walker, philanthropist and heiress (b. 1861)
4 November – Alfred Walter Campbell, neurologist (b. 1868)
6 November – William Moore, art and drama critic (b. 1868)
17 November – Jack Worrall, cricketer and Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy) (b. 1861)
19 November – Rayner Hoff, sculptor (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1894)
27 November – Walter Howchin, geologist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1845)
11 December – Godfrey Irving, 8th Chief of the General Staff (b. 1867)
16 December – Sir Murray Bourchier, 5th Deputy Premier of Victoria and soldier (died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1881)




See also


List of Australian films of the 1930s




References

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