October 6: Elected as a Nationalist party candidate to the Legislative
Council of the Victorian Parliament as Member for East Yarra; minister
without portfolio.
Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm and two Americans complete the first
trans-Pacific flight crossing from San Francisco to Brisbane by way of
Honolulu and Fiji.
Australian airman
Bert Hinkler becomes the first person to fly solo from Britain to Australia.
The flight is completed in less than fifteen and a half days.
The world's
first flying medical service, the Aerial Medical Service was established
on an experimental basis at Cloncurry, Queensland. Its first response
to a call came on 17th May, 1928, with a flight from Cloncurry to
Julia Creek.
The service was founded by 'Flynn of the Inland', the Reverend John Flynn;
the first pilot was Qantas' Arthur Affleck, and the first flying doctor
Sydney surgeon Dr Kenyon Welch, who was chosen from a list of volunteers.
In the first year Dr Welch saw 255 patients suffering conditions from
typhoid fever to gunshot wounds.
Aboriginals
Ordinance decrees that only the NT Chief Protector could issue licences
to employ Aboriginals.