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The following lists events that happened during 1958 in Australia.
List of events
Robert Menzies
- 14 January –
Qantas Airways introduces a round-the-world air service from Australia to London.
- 20 January – The
Royal Australian Naval College is moved back to
Jervis Bay Territory from
Flinders Naval Depot in Victoria.
- 28 January to 11 February –
Harold Macmillan visits Australia, the first
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to do so while in office.
- 14 February to 7 March –
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother visits Australia for the second time.
- 21 March –
John McEwen replaces
Arthur Fadden as federal leader of the
Country Party.
- 24 March – The
Cahill Expressway in Sydney opens, the first true freeway in Australia.
- 1 April –
William John O'Meally becomes The last person
flogged in Australia in
Melbourne's
Pentridge Prison.
- 3 April – A
cyclone destroys most of the town of
Bowen in Queensland.
- 15 April –
Monash University is founded in Melbourne, Victoria.
- 11 May – Construction of Australia's largest man-made lake,
Lake Eucumbene on the
Eucumbene River in the
Snowy Mountains, is completed.
- 31 May –
Henry Bolte's Liberal government is re-elected in Victoria.
- 19 July – The last
tram service runs in Perth.
- 26 August –
Robert Cosgrove retires as
Premier of Tasmania, and is replaced by
Eric Reece.
- 30 September – The ANZAC Day Act 1958 receives
Royal Assent, making
ANZAC Day (25 April) a national public holiday in Australia.
- 26 October – The wreckage of the
Australian National Airways Avro 10 aircraft, VH-UMF
Southern Cloud, is found. The aircraft had been missing since 1931.
- 22 November – A
federal election is held. The
Liberal-
Country
coalition led by
Robert Menzies defeats
H. V. Evatt's
Australian Labor Party with 74 seats to 45 in the
House of Representatives, a majority unprecedented since
Federation, gained from preferences from the
Democratic Labor Party.
-
Aquila Shoes, a shoe manufacturing company, founded.
-
Johnny O'Keefe has his first hit with Wild One.
- Radio station
2UE publishes the first Australian Top 40.
- Australian engineer Dr. David Warren of Melbourne's Aeronautical Research Laboratories constructs the world's first
flight recorder ("black box").
- Athletics
- Cricket
- Football
- Golf
- Horse racing
- Motor racing
- Tennis
- Yachting
- 3 January –
Kerry Armstrong, actress
- 5 January –
Penny Whetton, climatologist (died
2019)
- 6 February –
Simon Baker, race walker
- 10 February –
Phil Weightman, politician
- 12 February –
Grant McLennan, singer-songwriter and guitarist (died
2006)
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- 14 February –
Grant Thomas, Australian rules footballer
- 15 February –
Steve Bredhauer, politician
- 22 February –
Bill Feldman, politician
- 28 February –
Neil Bennett, politician
- 16 March –
Phillip Wilcher, pianist and composer
- 20 March –
Phil Anderson, cyclist
- 29 March –
Geoff Provest, politician
- 11 April –
Mark Furner, politician
- 12 April
- 19 April –
Bill Byrne, politician
- 5 May –
Robert DiPierdomenico, footballer and media personality
- 7 May –
Alan John, composer
- 11 May –
Peter Antonie, rower
- 11 May –
Phil Smyth, basketball player
- 3 July –
Gary Buckenara, Australian Rules footballer
- 6 July –
Gary Humphries, politician
- 13 July –
Richard Glover, journalist, author and radio personality
- 15 July –
Phil Gould, rugby league identity
- 12 August –
Grace Grace, politician
- 22 August –
Jo-Ann Miller, politician
- 30 September –
Rod Welford, politician
- October -
Garry Pankhurst, former child actor
- 13 October –
Jim Krakouer, Australian Rules footballer
- 22 October –
Jan Jarratt, politician
- 3 November –
Ted Radke, politician
- 15 November –
Lewis Fitz-Gerald, actor and director
- 24 November –
Alex Douglas, politician
- 26 November –
Terry Rogers, politician
- 27 November –
Linda Lavarch, politician
- 12 December –
Monica Attard, journalist
- 31 December –
Geoff Marsh, cricketer
-
24 January –
William Roy Hodgson, public servant (b.
1892)
-
8 March –
Brian Swift, Australian cricketer, car accident (b.
1937)
-
8 April –
Ethel Turner, writer (b.
1872)
-
15 May –
Sir John Northmore,
Western Australian Supreme Court Chief Justice (b.
1865)
-
4 August –
Ethel Anderson, poet, author, and painter (b.
1883)
-
13 September –
Russell Mockridge (b.
1928), cyclist
-
14 October –
Douglas Mawson, polar explorer (b.
1882)
-
30 November –
Hubert Wilkins, polar explorer (b.
1888)
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^ Garth Cartwright (10 May 2006).
"Grant McLennan". The Guardian.
Archived from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
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