Deaths
- 8 January – Campbell McComas, 52, impersonator, broadcaster, comedian
- 11 January – Miriam Hyde, composer and pianist
- 24 January – June Bronhill, soprano opera singer
- 16 March – Bob Bellear, first indigenous judge
- 25 March – Davis McCaughey, Governor of Victoria
- 26 March – Paul Hester, drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House (suicide)
- 23 April – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Premier of Queensland from 1968–1987.
- 23 April – Al Grassby, politician and minister in the Whitlam government
- 29 April – Sara Henderson, 69, author
- 1 May – René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker
- 25 May – Graham Kennedy, 71, radio and television, performer
- 9 June – Gloria Ida Logan, 78, artist and lecturer
- 16 June – Ross Stretton, ballet dancer and director
- 25 June – Harry Gibbs, Chief Justice of the High Court
- 3 July – W. Rubuntja, Aboriginal artist and activist
- 15 July – Ronald Wilson, Justice of the High Court
- 17 July – Joe Vialls, conspiracy theorist
- 18 July – Amy Gillett, cyclist
- 29 August – Margaret Scott, 70, author and poet
- 8 September – Donald Horne, academic and social critic
- 9 September – John Wayne Glover, serial killer
- 12 October – Frank Galbally, 82, lawyer, criminal advocate, defender in celebrated murder trials; described as the "father of Australian multiculturalism".
- 18 October – William Evan Allan, World War I veteran
- 24 October – Frank Wilson, actor
- 1 November – Michael Thwaites, intelligence officer and participant in the Petrov Affair
- 5 November – Hugh Alexander Dunn, diplomat
- 10 November – Kristian Fredrikson, stage and costume designer
- 2 December – Peter Menegazzo, cattle baron
- 3 December – Peter Cook, Labor senator
- 3 December – Lance Dossor, concert pianist
- 5 December – Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, entrepreneur
- 12 December – Eric D'Arcy, Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus
- 26 December – Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man & the major shareholder in PBL, which owns the Nine Network, Crown Casino & a large number of magazines.
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