1942 in Australia information

The following lists events that happened during 1942 in Australia. Australia had a population of 7,201,096 [contradictory] people consisting of 3,619,699...

In early 1942, elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) proposed an invasion of mainland Australia. This proposal was opposed by the Imperial Japanese...

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on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids...

alleged to be in preparation for a Japanese invasion of the continent. After the fall of Singapore in 1942, Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin compared...

presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1942. James Aldridge — Signed With Their Honour Jean Devanny —...

Western Australian emergency of March 1942 was a series of local responses that occurred in relation to activity in northern Western Australia that gave...

by the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942, and culminating in the Australia Acts of 1986. Australia is a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy...

on one side and Australian servicemen and civilians on the other, in Brisbane, Queensland's capital city, on 26 and 27 November 1942, during which time...

Royal Australian Air Force and Royal Australian Navy units and personnel continued to take part in the war against Germany and Italy. From 1942 until...

The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 is an act of the Australian Parliament that formally adopted sections 2–6 of the Statute of Westminster 1931...

Hermon (1968). Volume II – Royal Australian Navy, 1942–1945. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 20 November...

From 31 May to 8 June 1942, during World War II, Imperial Japanese Navy submarines made a series of attacks on the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle...

The year of 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time,...

during 1942 and 1943. Papua New Guinea was a part of Australia's overseas territories until 1975, and so the large Japanese invasion in 1942 was a significant...

of unarmed Australian nurses and wounded Allied soldiers on Bangka Island, east of Sumatra in the Indonesian archipelago on 16 February 1942. Shortly after...

1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia. Taking place in the...

Timor occurred in Portuguese Timor and Dutch Timor during the Second World War. Japanese forces invaded the island on 19 February 1942 and were resisted...

Broadcasting Act 1942 was an Act of the Parliament of Australia, passed in the first ministry of the 14th Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin. It was...

Reimbursement) Act 1942). The states rejected Canberra's regime and challenged the legislation's validity in the First Uniform Tax Case (South Australia v Commonwealth)...

broadcasting in Australia has been shaped for over a century by the problem of communication across long distances, coupled with a strong base in a wealthy...

The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet and thus heads the federal...

was accepted by Australia in 1934 and was annexed to the Northern Territory prior to adoption of the Statute of Westminster in 1942, deemed effective...

Killed in Air Crash: Enemy Attack on Flying-boat", The Sydney Morning Herald, National Library of Australia, Australian Newspapers, p. 9, 4 February 1942, retrieved...

submarine attack on Sydney Harbour in May 1942. About 40 Allied merchant ships were damaged or sunk off the Australian coast by surface raiders, submarines...