The following lists events that happened during 1950 in Australia.
Incumbents
State Premiers
State Governors
Events
Arts and literature
Unknown dates
Sport
Births
- 1 January â Wayne Bennett, rugby league footballer and coach
- 26 January â Barry Round, Australian rules footballer (died 2022)
- 30 January â Jack Newton, golfer (died 2022)
- 11 February â John Cobb, politician
- 14 February â Phil Dent, tennis player
- 16 February â Malcolm Blight, Australian Rules football player
- 20 February â Garry Manuel, football (soccer) player
- 1 March â Estelle Blackburn, journalist
- 11 March â Sam Kekovich, Australian Rules football player
- 18 March â Larry Perkins, ATCC/V8 Supercars racing driver
- 20 March â Warren Snowdon, politician
- 10 April â Mick Dodson, indigenous leader
- 11 April â Jim Molan, politician and army officer (died 2023)
- 13 April â Tommy Raudonikis, rugby league player and coach (died 2021)
- 15 April â Peter Cochrane, historian
- 21 April â Bruce Duperouzel, footballer and cricketer
- 29 April â Phillip Noyce, film director
- 11 May â Gary Foley, indigenous activist
- 15 May â Jim Bacon, Premier of Tasmania (2001âÂÂ2004, died 2004)
- 26 May â Paul Omodei, WA politician
- 29 May â Lesley Hunt, tennis player
- 31 May â Warren Entsch, politician
- 13 June â Belinda Bauer, actress
- 13 July – Kevin McQuay, businessman (died 2005)
- 15 July
- Colin Barnett, WA politician
- Alan Hurst, cricketer
- Peter Reith, politician (died 2022)
- 17 July â Nick Bolkus, politician (died 2025)
- 21 July â Allan Maher, football (soccer) goalkeeper
- 28 July â Jim Maxwell, cricket commentator
- 8 August â Philip Salom, poet and novelist
- 16 August â Jeff Thomson, cricketer
- 19 August â Graeme Beard, cricketer
- 6 September â Robyn Davidson, writer
- 8 September â Mark Gable, singer-songwriter
- 11 September â Bruce Doull, Australian Rules football player
- 27 September â John Marsden, writer (died 2024)
- 14 October â Kate Grenville, novelist
- 30 October â Tim Sheens, rugby league footballer and coach
- 2 November â Graeme Murphy, choreographer
- 7 November â John Lang, rugby league footballer and coach
- 25 November â Alexis Wright, writer
- 1 December â Ross Hannaford, guitarist (Daddy Cool) (died 2016)
- 10 December â Robert Cusack, swimmer
- 12 December
- Louis Nowra, writer and playwright
- Judy Wajcman, sociologist
- 18 December â Gillian Armstrong, film director
- 22 December â Nick Enright, playwright, director (died 2003)
Unknown date
Deaths
- 2 January
- James Dooley, 21st Premier of New South Wales (born in Ireland) (b. 1877)
- Beaumont Smith, film director and producer (b. 1885)
- 20 January â Ray Duggan, speedway racer (b. 1913)
- 25 January â Chummy Fleming, trade unionist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1863)
- 9 February â Ted Theodore, 20th Premier of Queensland (b. 1884)
- 23 February â Henry Willis, New South Wales politician (b. 1860)
- 19 March â Harry Wright, Australian rules footballer (Essendon) (b. 1870)
- 14 April â Sir Albert Dunstan, 33rd Premier of Victoria (b. 1882)
- 6 May â Lancelot De Mole, engineer and inventor (b. 1880)
- 15 May â Jack Hickey, Olympic rugby union and league player (b. 1887)
- 11 June â Ernest Henshaw, Western Australian politician (b. 1870)
- 20 June â Claude Jennings, cricketer (b. 1884)
- 14 July â Bill Howell, cricketer (b. 1869)
- 31 July â George Wise, Victorian politician and solicitor (b. 1853)
- 6 August â Edwin Corboy, Western Australian politician (b. 1896)
- 8 August â Sir Fergus McMaster, businessman and aviation pioneer (b. 1879)
- 3 September â Michael Durack, Western Australian politician and pastoralist (b. 1865)
- 22 September â Edward Fowell Martin, public servant and soldier (b. 1875)
- 24 September â Dame Mary Cook, 6th Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1863)
- 6 November â Frank Brennan, Victorian politician (b. 1873)
- 20 November â Erle Cox, journalist and science fiction author (b. 1873)
- 2 December â James Fenton, Victorian politician (b. 1864)
- 29 December â Albert Lane, New South Wales politician (b. 1873)
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