Arts and Literature
- Ivor Hele wins the Archibald Prize with his portrait of Robert Campbell Esq
- Donald Friend wins the Blake Prize for Religious Art with his work St John and Scenes from the Apocalypse
- Patrick White's The Tree of Man is published
- I Can Jump Puddles is published by Alan Marshall
- "Men's Wear" and "Collins st,5 p.m" by John Brack painted in Oakleigh, Melbourne, Victoria
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