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The following lists events that happened during 2019 in Australia .
List of events
Incumbents
Scott Morrison
State and Territory Leaders
Governors and Administrators
Events
January
3 January – One man is killed and another is injured following a double stabbing at the Asia-Pacific headquarters of the Church of Scientology in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood .[ 1] [ 2]
5 January – A far-right political rally held in Melbourne , marked by scuffles with police and counter-protesters, is attended by Independent Senator Fraser Anning , who admits to using tax-payer funded travel to attend the event.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
7 January – A mass fish die-off occurs on the Lower Darling River at Menindee Lakes . Up to 1 million fish, including endangered species, ultimately die in what is described as possibly the largest fish die-off in Australian history.[ 6] [ 7]
24 January – Professor Tanya Monro is appointed Australia's next Chief Defence Scientist , the first woman in the position.[ 8] [ 9]
29 January – The South Australian Murray Darling Basin Royal Commission report is released. The commission, which commenced in 2018, was critical of the Murray Darling Basin Plan and the Commonwealth Murray Darling Basin Authority.[ 10] [ 11]
February
March
13 March – Cardinal George Pell is sentenced to six years in prison following his conviction over the sexual abuse of two choirboys.[ 19]
23 March –
April
May
June
July
August
13 August – 2019 Sydney stabbing attack
16 August – Pro-Hong Kong protesters clash with pro-China supporters in Melbourne, while police are forced to intervene during similar confrontations in Sydney and Adelaide, following the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests .[ 29]
21 August – The Victorian Court of Appeal dismisses George Pell 's appeal to overturn his conviction for child sex offences.[ 30]
29 August – An attempt to deport the Sri Lankan Tamil Nadesalingam family asylum seekers was thwarted by a last-minute injunction, forcing the plane carrying the couple and their children out of Australia to land in Darwin.[ 31]
September
October
November
8 November – Three people are killed and 150 homes are destroyed by a large number of bushfires burning across New South Wales and South East Queensland .[ 35] [ 36]
11 November – A week-long State of Emergency is declared in New South Wales and the Australian Defence Force is put on alert amid mounting bushfire warnings.[ 37] [ 38]
December
Sport
January
February
March
May
June
September
October
November
Deaths
January
Paul Neville Annalise Braakensiek Chris Wilson 1 January – Paul Neville , Queenslander politician (b. 1940 )2 January – Darius Perkins , actor (b. 1964 )4 January – John Thornett , rugby union player (b. 1935 )6 January – Annalise Braakensiek , model (b. 1972 )7 January – Jimmy Hannan , television presenter (b. 1934 )8 January – Sir William Cole , public servant (b. 1926 )16 January – Chris Wilson , blues musician (b. 1956 )17 January – Tara Simmons , musician (b. 1984 )19 January – Robert Furlonger , diplomat and public servant (b. 1921 )20 January – Fred Castledine , Australian rules footballer (b. 1937 )22 January – Eileen Massey , cricketer (b. 1935 )24 January – Jim McCabe , Victorian politician (b. 1922 )29 January – Ian George , former Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide (b. 1934 )30 January
February
John Herron
March
Noel Hush Peter Coleman 1 March – Mike Willesee , television journalist (b. 1942 )4 March – Les Carlyon , newspaper editor (b. 1942 )10 March – Gordon McIntosh , Western Australian politician (b. 1925 )11 March – Desmond Ford , theologian (b. 1929 )13 March – Edmund Capon , art historian (died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1940 )18 March – Giovanni Sgro , Victorian politician (b. 1931 )19 March
20 March – Noel Hush , chemist (b. 1924 )22 March – Jack Absalom , artist, author and adventurer (b. 1927 )24 March – Vicky Kippin , Queensland politician (b. 1942 )25 March – Stylianos Harkianakis , Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia (b. 1935 )27 March – Bruce Yardley , Test cricketer (b. 1947 )30 March – Geoff Harvey , musician and television personality (b. 1935 )31 March – Peter Coleman , New South Welsh politician (b. 1928 )
April
Suzanne Twelftree Scott W. Sloan Eric Kent Les Murray 1 April – Bill Butchart , middle-distance runner (b. 1933 )4 April – John Winneke , judge (b. 1938 )6 April – Lloyd McDermott , barrister and rugby union player (b. 1939 )7 April –
9 April – Rod Galt , Australian rules footballer (St Kilda , Carlton ) (b. 1951 )11 April –
13 April –
15 April – Rex Harry , cricketer (b. 1936 )16 April – Suzanne Twelftree , Paralympic wheelchair tennis player and powerlifter (b. 1956 )18 April – Andrew Mallard , wrongfully convicted ex-convict (died in the United States ) (b. 1962 )20 April – Joyce Evans , photographer (b. 1929 )23 April – Scott W. Sloan , civil engineer and academic (b. 1954 )26 April – Eric Kent , Victorian politician (b. 1919 )29 April – Les Murray , poet (b. 1938 )30 April – Max Evans , Western Australian politician (b. 1930 )
May
Barbara York Main Bob Hawke Jean Burns Allan Edwards 1 May – Sir Arvi Parbo , businessman (b. 1926 )2 May – Mike Williamson , sports commentator (b. 1928 )3 May – Enrico Taglietti , architect (b. 1926 )4 May – Adam Sky , DJ (b. 1976 )12 May – Alan Grover , Olympic rowing coxswain (b. 1944 )14 May – Barbara York Main , arachnologist (b. 1929 )16 May
19 May – John Millett , poet (b. 1921 )20 May – Peter Hitchcock , environmentalist (b. 1944 )21 May
24 May – Alan Murray , golfer (b. 1940 )25 May – Jean Burns , aviatrix (b. 1919 )27 May – Kath Venn , Tasmanian politician (b. 1926 )27 May – Judith McKenzie , archaeologist (b. 1957 )28 May – Nick Yakich , rugby league footballer (b. 1940 )30 May – Allan Edwards , cricketer (b. 1921 )
June
Max Kay 1 June – Christobel Mattingley , writer (b. 1931 )4 June
5 June –
8 June –
12 June – Don Benson , Australian rules footballer (Richmond ) (b. 1920 )13 June – Anne Hamilton-Byrne , cult leader of The Family (b. 1921 )15 June – John Wilson , Australian rules footballer (Richmond ) (b. 1940 )18 June – Alf Hughes , Australian rules footballer (Hawthorn ) (b. 1930 )19 June – Christine Barnetson , Olympic swimmer (b. 1948 )20 June
21 June –
23 June – John Kobelke , Western Australian politician (b. 1949 )24 June – Steve Dunleavy , journalist (died in the United States ) (b. 1938 )25 June –
26 June – Ian Johnson , television executive (b. 1949 )28 June – Brian Rhodes , cricketer (b. 1951 )30 June – Doug Ford , cricketer (b. 1928 )
July
Bruce Wallrodt Neil Davey Richard Carter Margaret Fulton 2 July – Bruce Wallrodt , Paralympic athlete (b. 1951 )5 July
6 July –
8 July – Nick Garratt , rowing coach (b. 1947 )10 July – Nino Randazzo , journalist and member of the Italian Senate (b. 1932 )13 July
15 July – Doug Flett , songwriter (b. 1935 )19 July – David Hunt , New South Wales Supreme Court judge (b. 1935 )20 July – Peter McNamara , tennis player and coach (died in Germany ) (b. 1955 )21 July –
24 July – Margaret Fulton , cookbook writer (b. 1924 )25 July – Bruce Webster , New South Welsh politician and broadcaster (b. 1927 )26 July – Graham Freudenberg , political speechwriter (b. 1934 )28 July – Ian Drohan , Australian rules footballer (St Kilda ) (b. 1932 )29 July –
31 July
August
Malcolm T. Elliott Jim Forbes Bluey Adams Polly Farmer Glenn Tasker Jan Ruff O'Herne Tim Fischer 1 August – Barrington Pheloung , composer (b. 1954 )3 August – Damien Lovelock , musician (b. 1954 )5 August – Russell Middlemiss , Australian rules footballer (Geelong ) (b. 1929 )6 August
8 August – Malcolm T. Elliott , radio personality (b. 1946 )9 August – Hendricus Vogels , Olympic cyclist (b. 1942 )10 August – Jim Forbes , South Australian politician (b. 1923 )11 August
14 August
15 August – Glenn Tasker , president of Paralympics Australia (b. 1951 )17 August – Ronald Gray , Olympic athlete (b. 1932 )19 August – Jan Ruff O'Herne , human rights activist, former "comfort woman" (b. 1923 )20 August – Colin Beard , Australian rules footballer (South Fremantle , Richmond ) (b. 1941 )21 August – Norma Croker , Olympic athlete (b. 1934 )22 August – Tim Fischer , 10th Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1946 )23 August – Peter Moscatt , rugby league footballer (b. 1943 )24 August – Tony Nichols , Anglican prelate (b. 1938 )30 August – Elaine Darling , Queenslander politician (b. 1936 )31 August – Jane Mathews , judge (b. 1940 )
September
Danny Frawley Penny Whetton 1 September – Alison Cheek , Episcopal priest (died in the United States ) (b. 1927 )3 September –
6 September – Susan Irvine , author and educator (b. 1928 )8 September – Paul Lyons , Olympic taekwondo practitioner (b. 1969 )9 September – Danny Frawley , Australian rules footballer (St Kilda ) and coach (Richmond ) (b. 1963 )10 September – Hal Colebatch , author (b. 1945 )11 September – Penny Whetton , climatologist (b. 1958 )13 September –
16 September – Peter Lucas , Australian rules footballer (Collingwood ) (b. 1929 )17 September – Robert Oatey , Australian rules footballer (b. 1942 )20 September – Jim Macken , lawyer, judge and human rights activist (b. 1927 )21 September – David Combe , political lobbyist (b. 1943 )23 September – Tauto Sansbury , Indigenous activist (b. 1949 )26 September – Martin Wesley-Smith , composer (b. 1945 )29 September – John D'Arcy , Australian rules footballer (Richmond ) (b. 1935 )30 September – Tom Allsop , Australian rules footballer (Hawthorn ) (b. 1929 )
October
November
Kieran Modra Ken Kavanagh Sam Watson
December
John Cain Jr. 1 December – Stuart Fraser , musician (Blackfeather , Noiseworks )2 December – Greedy Smith , musician (Mental as Anything ) (b. 1956 )5 December – Don Howell , Australian rules footballer (St Kilda , Collingwood ) (b. 1935 )9 December – Paddy Guinane , Australian rules footballer (Richmond ) (b. 1939 )10 December – Bill Welsh , Australian rules footballer (Collingwood ) (b. 1924 )13 December – Graham Cooper , Australian rules footballer (Hawthorn ) (b. 1938 )15 December – Alfred Dennis , New South Wales politician (b. 1924 )18 December – Doug Ricketson , rugby league player (b. 1930 )20 December – Robert Moir , medical researcher (died in the United States ) (b. 1961 )21 December – Ron Penny , immunologist (b. 1936 )23 December – John Cain Jr. , Premier of Victoria (1982–1990) (b. 1931 )29 December – M. C. Ricklefs , indonesianist (b. 1943 )30 December – Horst Kwech , racecar driver (died in the United States ) (b. 1937 )
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