1952 in Australia - Events

Events

• 20 January – The first express trains run between Melbourne and Adelaide, following the completion of a railway between the two cities.
• 18 April – Owen Dixon becomes Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
• 29 April – The ANZUS Treaty between Australia, New Zealand and the United States comes into force.
• 14–18 June – Disastrous floods in the southeast corner leave 600 homeless and render a major rail line near Moss Vale unusable throughout the winter
  • The winter season is especially wet in the southeast of the continent, being the wettest on record in Melbourne and the fifth wettest on record in Sydney
• 1 September – Qantas Empire Airways commences the first air service between Australia and South Africa.
• 28 October – Premier of Victoria John McDonald resigns after the Victorian Legislative Council refuses supply. Thomas Hollway forms a short-lived ministry which lasts four days.
• 30 November – Lang Hancock discovers the world's largest deposit of iron ore in the Hamersley Range of Western Australia's Pilbara region.
• 6 December – A state election is held in Victoria.