Events
- 10 March – Australians Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David accompanied by Ernest Shackleton and others are the first people to scale Mount Erebus in Antarctica.
- 30 March – Commonwealth Quarantine service came into operation and took over quarantine stations in every state.
- 20 April – 44 are killed and 400 injured in the Sunshine train disaster.
- 7 May – The Coat of Arms of Australia are granted Royal Assent.
- August – Boys in Australia first participated in the scouting movement, within a year of scouting starting in England
- 20 August – The Great White Fleet, the first visit by the U.S. Navy to Australia, arrives in Sydney.
- 8 October – The capital of Australia is chosen, settling a feud between rivals Melbourne and Sydney.
- 13 November – The Australian Labor Party withdraws its support for the minority government of Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, forcing his replacement with Andrew Fisher.
- 18 November – The Victorian government passes the Adult Suffrage Bill 1908, granting female suffrage for the first time.
- 15 December – The Invalid and Old Age Pensions Act is passed, which sets up a national aged pension scheme.
- 29 December – A general election is held in Victoria. The government of Sir Thomas Bent is returned to power.
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