Deaths
- 20 February – Abraham Tobias Boas (born 1844), Adelaide rabbi
- 22 February – John Jenkins (born 1851), Premier of South Australia (1901–1905)
- 18 March – Thomas Allwright Dibbs (born 1832), banker
- 2 June – Ted Banfield (born 1852), naturalist and author (Confessions of a Beachcomber)
- 4 June – Hume Nisbet (born 1849), artist
- 6 June – Sir Denison Miller (born 1860), first governor of the Commonwealth Bank
- 30 June – John Henry Nicholson (born 1838), teacher and writer
- 26 July – Bella Guerin (born 1858), feminist and suffragist
- 22 August – James Burns (born 1846), shipowner
- 30 August – Sir Pope Alexander Cooper (born 1848), chief justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland
- 14 September – Edward Millen (born 1860), journalist and politician
- 26 September – Charles Scrivener (born 1855), surveyor of Canberra
- 5 November – Dowell Philip O'Reilly (born 1865), poet, writer and politician
- 27 November – Penleigh Boyd (born 1890), artist
- 15 December – Frank Morton (born 1869), journalist and poet
- 23 December – Sir John Gordon (born 1850), judge and politician
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)