1894 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1894 in Australia.

← 1893 1892 1891 1894 in Australia → 1895 1896 1897
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1894 Timeline of Australian history

Incumbents

Premiers

• Premier of New South Wales - George Dibbs (until 2 August) then George Reid
• Premier of South Australia - Charles Kingston
• Premier of Queensland - Hugh Nelson
• Premier of Tasmania - Henry Dobson (until 14 April) then Edward Braddon
• Premier of Western Australia - John Forrest
• Premier of Victoria - James Patterson (until 27 September) then George Turner

Governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Robert Duff
• Governor of Queensland – Henry Wylie Norman
• Governor of South Australia – Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
• Governor of Tasmania – Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston
• Governor of Victoria – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
• Governor of Western Australia – William C. F. Robinson

Events

• January - A cyclone hits the north west of Western Australia, killing approximately 50 persons
• 28 June - A Colonial Conference, held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, resolves to lay a telegraph cable between Canada and Australia.
• 22 October - Martha Needle is hanged in Melbourne Gaol for the poisoning of her husband, and three children, in an attempt to obtain money from insurance policies.
• 10 November - Jandamarra, an Indigenous Australian of the Bunuba people, leads one of the few armed insurrections against Europeans.
• 18 December - South Australia is the first colony to legislate women equal franchise with men, taking effect in 1895.
• The Australian Workers' Union is formed from the joining of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia and the General Labourers' Union.

Arts and literature

Main article: 1894 in Australian literature

• The novel Seven Little Australians is published by Ethel Turner

Sport

• Patron wins the Melbourne Cup
• South Australia wins the Sheffield Shield

Births

• 23 February – Harold Horder (died 1978), rugby league footballer
• 13 April – Arthur Fadden (died 1973), Prime Minister of Australia
• 30 April – H.V. Evatt (died 1965), politician
• 17 May – Raymond Brownell (died 1974), WW1 flying ace
• 14 August – Frank Burge (died 1958), rugby league footballer
• 25 August – Nick Winter (died 1955), athlete
• 20 December – Robert Menzies (died 1978), Prime Minister of Australia

Deaths

• 17 February - John Alexander MacPherson (born 1833), Premier of Victoria