Incumbents

Premiers

Premier of New South Wales – George Dibbs
Premier of South Australia – John Downer (until 16 June) then Charles Kingston
Premier of Queensland – Samuel Griffith (until 27 March), Thomas McIlwraith (until 27 October) then Hugh Nelson
Premier of Tasmania – Henry Dobson
Premier of Western Australia – John Forrest
Premier of Victoria – William Shiels (until 23 January) then James Patterson

Governors

Events

30 January – The Federal Bank collapses, starting the Australian banking crisis of 1893.^[1]
4 February – 1893 Brisbane flood devastates Queensland.^[2]
14 June – Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others.
Queensland is granted its Coat of Arms
Coolgardie and Esperance are both declared as towns
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria spends time hunting kangaroos and emus in Australia

Arts and literature

Bay View Gavotte 1893 by William Stanley

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Main article: 1893 in Australian literature

Sport

Tarcoola wins the Melbourne Cup
Victoria wins the inaugural Sheffield Shield

Births

10 January – Albert Jacka (died 1932), recipient of the Victoria Cross^[4]
11 January – Charles "Chook" Fraser (died 1981), rugby league footballer and coach
13 January – Roy Cazaly (died 1963), Australian Rules footballer
30 April – Harold Breen (died 1966), public servant
21 May – Giles Chippindall, (died 1969), public servant
4 August – Amy Hannah Adamson (died 1963), school principal
8 October – William Morrison (died 1961), Governor General of Australia
22 November – Robert Nimmo (died 1966), army officer
2 December – Raphael Cilento (died 1985), medical administrator
9 December – Ivo Whitton (died 1967), golfer

Deaths

4 September – Francis William Adams, writer (born 1862)
17 October – Josiah Howell Bagster, land agent and politician (born 1847)

Footnotes

^ Monetary and Commercial – The Argus
^ Known Floods in the Brisbane and Bremer River Basin -BOM
^ Stanley, William, 1820-1902 (1893), Bay View gavotte [music] / composed by William Stanley (in no linguistic content), W.H. Paling & Co((citation)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Captain Albert Jacka". www.awm.gov.au. Retrieved 8 October 2018.

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