1913 in Australia

1913 in Australia
1913 in Australia
Monarch	George V
Governor-General	Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
Prime minister	Andrew Fisher, then Joseph Cook
Population	4,820,172
Elections	Federal, New South Wales, Tasmania

Decades:	; ; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s;
See also:	Other events of 1913; ; Timeline of Australian history;

The following lists events that happened during 1913 in Australia.

Incumbents

2 January — Australian philately proper begins in early 1913 with the Kangaroo and Map series of stamps, featuring a kangaroo standing on a map of Australia, and inscribed "AUSTRALIA POSTAGE".
12 March — Canberra is named by Gertrude Denman
1 May — The first national banknotes were introduced in denominations of 10 shillings, and 1, 5, and 10 pounds.
31 May — 1913 Australian referendum contained six questions: Trade and Commerce, Corporations, Industrial Matters, Trusts, Monopolies, Railway Disputes. None of these were carried.
21 June — HMAS Australia, commissioned at Portsmouth and sailed to Australia to become the Australian flagship.
1 to 31 August — With an average rainfall of 0.24 millimetres or 0.0094 inches, this is the driest area-averaged month over Queensland since at least 1900.^[1]
Royal Commission appointed to inquire into certain charges against Henry Chinn; Chinn was supervising engineer for the transcontinental railway in Western Australia.
Royal Commission on Northern Territory railways and ports
Royal Commission on powellised timber
Golden Fleece Company established by HC Sleigh; acquired by Caltex in 1981
The Workers' Educational Association founded; it is Australia's largest non-government adult community education organisation.
From 1859 until 1913, a squadron of the Royal Navy was maintained in Australian waters.
Norfolk Island Act 1913 meant that Norfolk Island became an Australia Territory under the authority of the Australian Commonwealth.

Amalgamation took place between Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd and the Australian Wireless Company forming Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited.
The first totalisator, an entirely mechanical system invented by the Australian George Julius of Julius Poole & Gibson Pty Ltd, was installed at Ellerslie Racecourse in New Zealand.

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Australia Calls, Raymond Longford's last film for Cozens Spencer was released.
Frank Hurley's actuality film, The Home of the Blizzard, about the Douglas Mawson expedition to Antarctica, was released.

The 1913 VFL (now AFL) Premiership was won by Fitzroy
The 1913 NSWRFL Premiership is won by Eastern Suburbs for the third year in a row.
Posinatus wins the Melbourne Cup
South Australia wins the 1912–13 Sheffield Shield
The Australian cricket team toured USA and Canada in June to August, playing five matches, four in Philadelphia and one in Toronto.

3 January – Garnet Walch, writer, journalist and publisher (b. 1843)
4 February – James Styles, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1841)
18 February – George Lewis Becke, trader and writer (b. 1855)
4 June – Ambrose Dyson, illustrator and political cartoonist (b. 1876)
6 July – J. C. Williamson, actor (born in the United States and died in France) (b. 1844)
20 July – Joseph Vardon, South Australian politician and printer (b. 1843)
3 August – Sir William Lyne, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)^[2]
25 August – William Knox, Victorian politician and businessman (died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1850)
12 November – Sir John George Davies, Tasmanian politician, newspaper proprietor and cricketer (b. 1846)
25 November – Charlie Frazer – Western Australian politician (b. 1880)

^ "Sorted rainfall over Queensland for all months". Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
^ Chris Cunneen (1986). Geoff Serle (ed.). Lyne, Sir William John (1844–1913). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 10. Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 3 January 2022.