Events
- 9 February – Cairns is hit by a tropical cyclone.
- 15 February – An explosion kills 13 men at the State Coal Mine in Wonthaggi, Victoria.
- 20 February – A general election is held in Tasmania. The incumbent Labor government led by Albert Ogilvie is returned to power.
- 1 March – Bernard O'Reilly locates the wreckage of an Airlines of Australia Stinson airliner, VH-UHH City of Brisbane, in the McPherson Range in southern Queensland. Two survivors are rescued, five others did not survive.
- 20 April – Regular airmail services begin between Australia and the USA.
- 23 October – The ACTU calls on the government to boycott trade with Japan, following the Japanese invasion of China.
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Still, you can’t listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.”
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