Events
- 7 March – Arthur Calwell becomes leader of the Australian Labor Party.
- 10 June – A TAA Fokker Friendship, Abel Tasman, crashes at Mackay, Queensland, killing 29 persons. To date (2009), this remains the worst loss of life in a peacetime air crash in Australia.
- 7 July – An eight-year-old schoolboy, Graeme Thorne, is kidnapped in Sydney, apparently to extort money from his parents who had recently won the Sydney Opera House lottery.
- 19 July – First reported skyjacking/hijacking in the world Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408
- 14 October – The Warragamba Dam is opened by the Premier of New South Wales.
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“Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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