Australian Events
Population 6 million. The net gain from immigration in the previous 12 months is 44,212 - most of them British.- 500 members of the Australian Workers Union refuse to pick fruit with Italians at Mildura.
- The man known as 'Flynn of the Inland', Reverend John Flynn tells of moves to install wirelesses in isolated homesteads in Central Australia, a part of his lifelong mission to overcome loneliness and isolation for people of the inland.
The rapid spread of the Prickly Pear cactus is a danger to cattle grazing land. About 30 million acres are overrun by the plant, mostly in Queensland.
