Australian Events
Posted in 1923
- Bruce-Page Government, February 9 (see Australian Prime Ministers)
- November 5: A strike by Victorian Police against a new supervision system leaves Melbourne undefended, tempting vandals and looters into the city. The government dismisses all the strikers and hastily swears in special constables who lead a baton charge to clear Melbourne's streets of an estimated 100,000 people. The Sun newspaper headline reads: "Running like rabbits from a baton charge of special constables".
- Silver and lead are discovered at Mt Isa, Queensland.
- Women in Victoria are granted the right to stand for election to the Legislative Assembly in August.
- Construction of the new federal Parliament House in Canberra begins. Intended only as a "provisional" home, it would be used by the Parliament for 61 years.
- "Vegemite" is first produced by the Fred Walker Cheese Co.