Arts and Literature
- 16 May – The Commonwealth Literary Fund is established.
- Henry Handel Richardson's first novel Maurice Guest is published
- We of the Never Never by Mrs Aeneas Gunn is published
- The poem My Country by Dorothea Mackellar first published
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