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Acting Premier of Victoria for 3 months from February to June. Robert Menzies
quits state parliament to contest the federal seat of Kooyong as a United
Australia Party candidate. On 15 September
Menzies wins the seat of Kooyong and enters Federal Parliament. He is
immediately appointed Attorney-General and Minister for Industry, positions
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A Parliamentary Joint Select Committee is appointed as a result of the
1933 West Australian referendum vote to secede from the Commonwealth of
Australia. Its report titled "Case of the People of Western Australia"
was sent to London in July 1934. The basic wage
is restored. Invention of
the utility truck by Ford Australia. Conservationist
Myles Dunphy declares that "an Age of Wastefulness" has been
replaced by "an Age of Conservation". His goal is wilderness
protection through the establishment of a Greater Blue Mountains National
Park. Australia's
aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith flies from Melbourne to Perth in a
record-breaking 10 and a half hours in his "little grey streak",
the Lady Southern Cross. The London to
Melbourne Air Race ends at Essendon Airport. The race is part of the Melbourne
Centenary celebrations and is won by British pilots TWA Scott and Campbell
Black. |
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Hitler becomes Fuehrer of Germany: Enabling Law gives Hitler dictatorial
powers. Australia-Britain
air mail service begins. British pilots
TWA Scott and Campbell Black win the Melbourne Centenary air race from
London to Melbourne. |
 In 1931 Charles Kingsford Smith (left, holding mailbag) delivers the first experimental air mail from Europe to Australia 20 |
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