1915 in Australia
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| 1915 in Australia | |
| Monarch | George V |
| Governor-General | Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson |
| Prime Minister | Andrew Fisher, then Billy Hughes |
| Population | 4,985,569 |
| Elections | South Australia, Queensland |
See also: 1914 in Australia, other events of 1915, 1916 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Prime Minister - Andrew Fisher then Billy Hughes
- Governor General - The Right Hon. Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson
- Premier of New South Wales - William Holman
- Premier of South Australia - Archibald Peake then from 3 April Crawford Vaughan
- Premier of Queensland - Digby Denham then from 1 June T.J. Ryan
- Premier of Tasmania - John Earle
- Premier of Western Australia - John Scaddan
- Premier of Victoria - Sir Alexander Peacock
[edit] Events
- April 25 - The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
- April 30 - Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmara.
- June 6 - The BHP steelworks opens in Newcastle, New South Wales.
- July 19 - Albert Jacka becomes the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross during the First World War.
- August 9 - Alexander Burton died at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey. He was awarded the Victoria Cross.
- August 24 - The town of Holbrook, New South Wales was renamed from Germanton.
- October 10 - Twenty six men left Gilgandra, New South Wales on the Cooee March; the first of the World War I Snowball marches. At each town on the route they shouted "cooee" to attract recruits; the march arrived in Sydney on November 12 with 263 recruits.
- October 27 - Billy Hughes becomes the seventh Prime Minister of Australia and the first to serve consecutive terms in office.
- December 20 - Completion of ANZAC evacuation from Gallipoli before dawn.
[edit] Science & Technology
- 10 December - Father and son scientists William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
[edit] Sport
- Patrobas wins the Melbourne Cup
- 1914/15 the Sheffield Shield was won by the Victorian Bushrangers; after this season it was not contested due to the war.
[edit] Births
- 3 March - Manning Clark (d.1991), historian
