1892 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1892 in Australia.

Incumbents

Premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – George Dibbs
• Premier of South Australia – Thomas Playford II (until 21 June), Frederick Holder (until 15 October), then John Downer
• Premier of Queensland – Samuel Griffith
• Premier of Tasmania – Philip Fysh (until 17 August) then Henry Dobson
• Premier of Western Australia – John Forrest
• Premier of Victoria – James Munro (until 16 February), then William Shiels

Governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey
• Governor of Queensland – Henry Wylie Norman
• Governor of South Australia – Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
• Governor of Tasmania – Robert Hamilton until 30 November, vacant thereafter
• Governor of Victoria – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
• Governor of Western Australia – William C. F. Robinson

Events

• 20 April – Victoria holds a general election.
• 23 May – Frederick Deeming hanged at Melbourne Gaol having been unsuccessfully defended by the lawyer Alfred Deakin. Deeming was accused of committing a series of crimes on three continents – theft, perjury, fraud, bigamy and murder; he used at least 20 aliases.
• 10 October – Jackie Howe shears a total of 321 sheep in 7 hours and 40 minutes at Blackall, Queensland, a record for hand shears that still stands.

• 1 January – Physical Culture (Physie) started in Australia.

Arts and literature

Sport

• 5 October – the Australian Cricket Council announces an intercolonial cricket competition to be known as the Sheffield Shield.
• Glenloth wins the Melbourne Cup
• Collingwood Football Club was founded

Births

• 13 April – Gladys Moncrieff (died 1976), singer
• 20 April – Grace Cossington Smith, (died 1984), artist
• 6 July – John Simpson Kirkpatrick (died 1915), World War I ANZAC known as "the man with the donkey" https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kirkpatrick-john-simpson-6975
• 7 August – Sir Arthur Coles (died 1982), businessman and philanthropist
• 24 November – Sir Daniel McVey (died 1972), public servant
• 8 December – Bert Hinkler (died 1933), aviator

Deaths

• 10 May – Barcroft Boake (born 1866), poet
• 7 November – John Morphett (born 1809), explorer, settler and politician

References