Australian Events

• The sporting world is shocked by Bodyline bowling, the assault tactics employed against Australia during England's Ashes victory in the Test cricket series.
• Western Australia votes in a compulsory referendum to secede from the Commonwealth:

"... failure to implement the 1924 Royal Commission's recommendations to remedy the financial disabilities that Federation had inflicted on WA ... produced a 2:1 vote for WA to withdraw from the Commonwealth."
The Macquarie Book of Events, 1983 p 337.

The submission to secede was rejected by the British House of Commons Joint Select Committee in 1935.

• The country's first electric traffic lights are installed at a Sydney intersection.