• Becomes Victoria's youngest King's Counsel.
• Wins the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Nunawading with ease.

A group of young activists, organised by T S Nettlefold, R G Menzies and W S Kent-Hughes, form the Young Nationals Organisation to assist non-Labor candidates in the 1929 federal election.
The Macquarie Book of Events, 1983 p 316.

• Scullin Government, October 22: (see Australian Prime Ministers) Stanley Bruce becomes the only prime minister to lose his seat at an election.
• Victorian Supreme Court judge Owen Dixon KC is appointed to the High Court.
• First train from Adelaide to Alice Springs.
• The Great Economic Depression begins - it brings years of hardship for average Australians.
• Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew of the Southern Cross set a record for flying between England and Australia of less than 13 days.

• Wall Street stock market crash. World economic depression begins.
• First in-flight movie is shown on a flight from St Paul to Chicago.
• Theory that our universe started with a gigantic explosion thousands of millions of years ago, and has been expanding ever since, was borne out by observations with the world's biggest telescopes.