The following lists events that happened during 1937 in Australia .
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9 February – Cairns is hit by a tropical cyclone .
15 February – An explosion kills 13 men at the State Coal Mine in Wonthaggi, Victoria .
20 February – A general election is held in Tasmania . The incumbent Labor government led by Albert Ogilvie is returned to power.
1 March – Bernard O'Reilly locates the wreckage of an Airlines of Australia Stinson airliner, VH-UHH City of Brisbane , in the McPherson Range in southern Queensland . Two survivors are rescued, five others did not survive.
20 April – Regular airmail services begin between Australia and the USA.
21-23 April - The first conference of Commonwealth and State Aboriginal authorities is held in Canberra. The conference sees several resolutions pass with the aim of assimiliating Australian Aboriginals (excluding those deemed full-blooded) in white culture.[1]
23 October – The ACTU calls on the government to boycott trade with Japan, following the Japanese invasion of China . Arts and literature
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16 January – Lorraine Bayly , actor
19 January – John Lions , computer scientist and academic (died 1998)
21 January
25 January – John Watson , Liberal Senator for Tasmania
4 February – John Devitt , Olympic swimmer (died 2023)
19 February
20 February – Robert Evans , minister and amateur astronomer (died 2022)
21 February – Ron Clarke , Olympic athlete (died 2015)
3 March – Kevin O'Halloran , Olympic swimmer (died 1976)
7 April – Louise Faulkner , missing woman
13 April – Col Joye , entertainer
19 April – Lindsay Fox , businessman
27 May – Peter Pinne , writer and composer
1 June – Colleen McCullough , novelist (died 2015)
11 June – Robin Warren , Nobel Prize-winning pathologist
7 July Jocelyn Newman , politician (died 2018)
26 July
28 August – Tony Marchant , Olympic track cyclist
1 September – Ian Callinan , High Court judge
4 September – Dawn Fraser , Olympic swimmer
17 September – Gary Chapman , Olympic swimmer (died 1978)
18 September – Barry Muir , rugby league footballer (died 2022)
3 October – John Hodges , Minister for Immigration (1982–1983)
7 October – Colin Guest , cricketer (died 2018)
10 October – Bruce Devlin , golfer
21 November – John Kerin , politician (died 2023)
12 December
17 December – Kerry Packer , businessman (died 2005)
George Prendergast 11 February – Walter Burley Griffin , architect of Canberra (born in the United States and died in India ) (b. 1876 )18 March – Walter Wilson Froggatt , geologist and economic entomologist (b. 1858 )7 May – Christina Jane Corrie , Queensland politician and suffragette (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1867 )[2] 9 June – Charles Chewings , geologist and anthropologist (b. 1859 )10 July – Thomas Brentnall , accountant and musician (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1846 )22 July – Ted McDonald , cricketer and Australian rules footballer (Essendon , Fitzroy ) (died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1891 )28 July – Sir George Hyde , 7th Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1877 )14 August – Bruce Smith , New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1851 )28 August – George Prendergast , 28th Premier of Victoria (b. 1854 )28 September – William Ramsay Smith , physician and anthropologist (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1859 )2 October – Sir Granville Ryrie , New South Wales politician, diplomat and soldier (b. 1865 )8 October – Dame Eadith Walker , philanthropist and heiress (b. 1861 )[3] 4 November – Alfred Walter Campbell , neurologist (b. 1868 )6 November – William Moore , art and drama critic (b. 1868 )17 November – Jack Worrall , cricketer and Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy ) (b. 1861 )19 November – Rayner Hoff , sculptor (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1894 )27 November – Walter Howchin , geologist (born in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1845 )11 December – Godfrey Irving , 8th Chief of the General Staff (b. 1867 )16 December – Sir Murray Bourchier , 5th Deputy Premier of Victoria and soldier (died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1881 ) See also
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