1954 in Australia

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The following lists events that happened during 1954 in Australia.

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{{Year in Australia|1954}}

Incumbents

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Events

  • 3 February – Elizabeth II arrives in Sydney on her first visit as monarch
  • 13 February – Mawson Station in the Australian Antarctic Territory is established
  • During February, a cyclone hits the Gold Coast and northern New South Wales, killing 26[https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20090317054300/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/96122/20090317-1643/www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/cyclone3.html Bureau of Meteorology]{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
  • 1 March - Adelaide and large parts of southern South Australia are shaken by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake, resulting in the injuries of 16 people, and a damage bill of £17 million (2017: $578 million).
  • 3 April – Vladimir Petrov, a Soviet diplomat, defects to Australia, sparking the Petrov Affair
  • Shirley Bliss wins the Miss Australia Quest
  • On 31 October, the first Vickers Viscount aircraft delivered to Australia crashed at Mangalore Airport while on a training flight only days after its arrival in Australia, killing 3 of the 7 people on board.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23458910 "Viscount Crashes"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716065618/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23458910 |date=16 July 2024 }} The Argus - 1 November 1954, p.1 (National Library of Australia) Retrieved 2012-07-01

Science and technology

Arts and literature

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Sport

Births

  • 10 January – Greg Towns, footballer
  • 25 January – Kay Cottee, sailor
  • 26 January – Kim Hughes, cricketer
  • 26 March - Clive Palmer, businessman and politician
  • 27 April – Mark Holden, singer and media personality
  • 1 May – Garry Who, actor and comedian
  • 2 May – Don Cameron, water polo player and coach
  • 19 May – Phil Rudd, musician
  • 27 May – Pauline Hanson, politician
  • 17 June – Kerry Greenwood, novelist and lawyer (died 2025){{Cite web |title=Kerry Greenwood |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A22250 |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}
  • 30 June – Wayne Swan, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
  • 2 July – Scott W. Sloan, professor of civil engineering (died 2019)
  • 11 July – Paul Blackwell, actor (died 2019)
  • 11 August – Wally Carr, boxer (died 2019)
  • 12 August – Rob Borbidge, Premier of Queensland
  • 2 September – Gai Waterhouse, horse trainer
  • 13 September – Steve Kilbey, musician
  • 20 September – James Moloney, author
  • 27 September – Ray Hadley, 2GB radio announcer
  • 13 October – Banduk Marika, Indigenous artist and printmaker (died 2021)
  • 15 October – Steve Bracks, 44th Premier of Victoria
  • 24 October – Malcolm Turnbull, 29th Prime Minister of Australia
  • 12 November – Paul McNamee, tennis player
  • 22 November – Carol Tomcala, sports shooter{{cite web |title=Carol TOMCALA - Olympic Shooting {{!}} Australia |url=https://www.olympic.org/carol-tomcala |website=International Olympic Committee |access-date=27 February 2020 |language=en |date=17 June 2016 |archive-date=2 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202004715/https://www.olympic.org/carol-tomcala |url-status=live }}
  • 26 November – Jacki MacDonald, media personality
  • 29 November – Steve Rogers (died 2006), Rugby league footballer

Deaths

See also

References

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