Deaths
- 17 January – Bert Kelly (born 1912), Federal politician
- 31 January – John Panizza (born 1931), Senator
- 16 March – Harry Holgate (born 1933), Premier of Tasmania (1981–1982)
- 10 April – Clinton Haines (born 1976), computer hacker
- 25 April – Brian May (born 1934), composer
- 21 May – William Arthur (born 1918), Federal politician
- 21 May – William Aston (born 1916), Federal politician
- 15 June – Jaidyn Leskie (born 1996), murder victim
- 11 July – Jock Sturrock (born 1915), Olympic yachtsman and 1962 Australian of the Year
- 14 July – Sir Garfield Barwick (born 1903), Chief Justice of the High Court
- 6 August – Lance Barnard (born 1919), Federal politician
- 18 August – Burnum Burnum (born 1936), Aboriginal activist and actor
- 5 September – Brian Grieve (born 1907), botanist
- 12 September – Archer Denness (born 1914), soldier
- 16 September – Anne Kerr, Lady Kerr (born 1914), wife of Sir John Kerr
- 5 November – Peter Jackson (born 1964), rugby league footballer
- 6 November – Jane Thurgood-Dove, murder victim
- 22 November – Michael Hutchence (born 1960), musician
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“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
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
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—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
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