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Events relating to australia
Australia's Salvation Army produces an ambitious presentation of film and slides in Soldiers of the Cross
Six separate Australian colonies combine to form the independent Commonwealth of Australia
Australia passes an Immigration Restriction Act to underpin the White Australia policy
John Christian Watson becomes Australia's first Labor prime minister, leading a minority government that survives for only four months
Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes the first of a great many recordings
The Story of the Kelly Gang, produced in Australia, is the first feature-length film, with a running time of nearly an hour
The Harvester Judgement establishes a minimum wage in Australia
New Zealand becomes independent as a self-governing dominion
Parliament in Australia chooses Canberra as the site of the nation's new capital
US boxer Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight champion when he knocks out Tommy Burns in Australia
In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories
A young American architect, Walter B. Griffin, wins the competition to design Canberra
The German cruiser Emden is sunk off the Cocos-Keeling islands by an Australian cruiser, the Sydney
Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film
The inflationary pressures of world war force nations to abandon the established gold standard
British and French troops, together with the Australian and New Zealander Army Corps (ANZAC), land in Gallipoli
New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies sets up a plastic surgery unit at Aldershot, a British military base
Australia Felix is the first in Henry Handel Richardson's trilogy of novels about her father
New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies publishes a pioneering text book, Plastic Surgery of the Face
D.H. Lawrence takes a house in Sydney, where he writes the bulk of his novel Kangaroo
Vegemite is launched in Melbourne as Australia's answer to Marmite
The Australian parliament moves from Melbourne to a temporary Parliament House in the new federal capital at Canberra
In only his third Test match, 20-year-old Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a century
An Aerial Medical Service is launched in Queensland, Australia, subsequently becoming the Flying Doctor Service
Australian police massacre Aborigines near Coniston in reprisal for a murder
