Australian Events
- October 11: Cabinet holds its first meeting in Parliament House Canberra, before the official opening on 9 May, 1927.
- J McCallum Smith (MLA in WA) begins a secessionist campaign for Western Australia to withdraw from the Commonwealth.
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is established. In 1949 it will become the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
- Invention of the pedal wireless by Alfred Traeger, a young inventor from Adelaide, was about to revolutionize life in outback Australia.