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((Use dmy dates|date=January 2021))
((Use Australian English|date=February 2012))
((More citations needed|date=December 2009))
The following lists events that happened during '''1990 in Australia'''.

((Infobox Australian year
| monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]
| governor-general = [[Bill Hayden]]
| pm = [[Bob Hawke]]
| population = 17,065,128
| australian = 
| elections =[[1990 Australian federal election|Federal]], [[1990 Northern Territory general election|NT]]
))
((Year in Australia|1990))

==Incumbents==
[[File:Bill Hayden on 29.5.1990.jpg|thumb|upright|140px|[[Bill Hayden]]]]
[[File:Bob Hawke 1987 portrait crop.jpg|thumb|upright|140px|[[Bob Hawke]]]]
*[[Monarchy in Australia|Monarch]] – [[Elizabeth II]]
*[[Governor General of Australia|Governor-General]] – [[Bill Hayden]]
*[[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] –  [[Bob Hawke]]
**[[Deputy Prime Minister of Australia|Deputy Prime Minister]] – [[Lionel Bowen]] (until 4 April), then [[Paul Keating]]
**[[List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition|Opposition Leader]] – [[Andrew Peacock]] (until 3 April), then [[John Hewson]]
*[[Chief Justice of Australia|Chief Justice]] – [[Anthony Mason (judge)|Sir Anthony Mason]]

===State and territory leaders===
*[[Premier of New South Wales]] – [[Nick Greiner]]
**[[Leader of the Opposition (New South Wales)|Opposition Leader]] – [[Bob Carr]]
*[[Premier of Queensland]] – [[Wayne Goss]]
**[[Leader of the Opposition (Queensland)|Opposition Leader]] – [[Russell Cooper]]
*[[Premier of South Australia]] – [[John Bannon]]
**[[Leader of the Opposition (South Australia)|Opposition Leader]] – [[John Olsen]] (until 12 January), then [[Dale Baker]]
*[[Premier of Tasmania]] – [[Michael Field (politician)|Michael Field]]
**[[Leader of the Opposition (Tasmania)|Opposition Leader]] – [[Robin Gray (Australian politician)|Robin Gray]]
*[[Premier of Victoria]] – [[John Cain (junior)|John Cain Jr.]] (until 10 August), then [[Joan Kirner]]
**[[Leader of the Opposition (Victoria)|Opposition Leader]] – [[Alan Brown (Australian politician)|Alan Brown]]
*[[Premier of Western Australia]] – [[Peter Dowding]] (until 12 February), then [[Carmen Lawrence]]
**[[Leader of the Opposition (Western Australia)|Opposition Leader]] – [[Barry MacKinnon]]
*[[Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory]] – [[Trevor Kaine]]
**[[Leader of the Opposition (Australian Capital Territory)|Opposition Leader]] – [[Rosemary Follett]]
*[[Chief Minister of the Northern Territory]] – [[Marshall Perron]]
**[[Leader of the Opposition (Northern Territory)|Opposition Leader]] – [[Terry Smith (politician)|Terry Smith]] (until 1 November), then [[Brian Ede]]
*[[List of heads of government of Norfolk Island|President of the Legislative Assembly of Norfolk Island]] – [[David Buffett]]

===Governors and administrators===
*[[Governor of New South Wales]] – [[David Martin (governor)|Sir David Martin]] (until 7 August), then [[Peter Sinclair (governor)|Peter Sinclair]]
*[[Governor of Queensland]] – [[Walter Campbell (judge)|Sir Walter Campbell]]
*[[Governor of South Australia]] – [[Donald Dunstan (governor)|Sir Donald Dunstan]]
*[[Governor of Tasmania]] – [[Phillip Bennett|Sir Phillip Bennett]]
*[[Governor of Victoria]] – [[Davis McCaughey]]
*[[Governor of Western Australia]] – [[Francis Burt|Sir Francis Burt]] (from 29 March)
*[[List of administrative heads of Norfolk Island|Administrator of Norfolk Island]] – Herbert MacDonald
*[[Administrator of the Northern Territory]] – [[James Muirhead (judge)|James Muirhead]]

==Events==

===January===
*2 January – A battle by the major creditors to the Bond Group of companies to gain control of the best assets begins in the [[Supreme Court of Victoria]].
*3 January – Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] and New South Wales Premier [[Nick Greiner]] meet to discuss the reconstruction of Newcastle.
*16 January – [[Andrew Peacock]] launches the Federal Opposition's Family Action Plan.
*17 January – 
**Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] is heckled by pilots while on the campaign trail.
**The National Australia Bank buys out Britain's Yorkshire Bank.
*18 January – 
**[[Supreme Court of Victoria]] grants [[Alan Bond]] permission to sell an oilfield to raise cash.
**A fateful outback trip in scorching conditions claims the lives of seven Aboriginal people from the Punmu community in the Great Sandy Desert. 
*19 January – A fire breaks out in the historic Wool Store building in Brisbane.
**A man is charged over an alleged plan to fire-bomb Parliament in Canberra.
**Queensland Premier [[Wayne Goss]] announces an independent inquiry into the logging industry on [[Fraser Island]].
*22 January – 
**Tram dispute talks break down in Melbourne.
**A gas leak causes the evacuation of a Melbourne building.<ref name="auto">GTV 9 News Melbourne</ref>
*23 January – The industrial tram dispute continues as 250 trams blockade the city of Melbourne.<ref name="auto"/>
*24 January – 
**An Australian is shot dead in Bougainville.
**A fireworks explosion occurs at an amusement park on the New South Wales Central Coast.
*25 January – 
**Opposition health spokesman Peter Shack embarrassingly fails to produce the Coalition's long-promised health insurance policy.  The Federal Opposition abandons its Medicare policy in what critics regarded as an embarrassing turnaround.
**The International Olympic Committee President arrives in Melbourne, giving a massive boost to Melbourne's Olympic Games bid.
*26 January – [[Allan Border]] is honoured in the Australia Day Honours.
*27 January – A riot breaks out at a Brisbane jail.
*28 January – 
**Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] pledges millions for a new Melbourne sports stadium.
**Police arrest a man in Melbourne alleged to be the infamous loaded note bandit.
*30 January – An inquiry into the Grafton bus crash begins.
*31 January – A freak storm tears a path of destruction across [[Mount Isa]], Queensland.

===February===
*2 February – Cyclone Nancy hits the town of Maryborough in Queensland.
*7 February – Commonwealth Games athletes are welcomed home with a parade through the city streets of Melbourne.
*8 February – An oil slick pollutes Victoria's Ninety Mile Beach.
*12 February – [[Carmen Lawrence]] becomes the [[Premier of Western Australia]], and Australia's first female premier, after the resignation of Peter Dowding.
*14 February – 
**A report is released which condemns the police rescue effort during the Newcastle earthquake.
**[[Austin Lewis (politician)|Austin Lewis]] is removed from the shadow frontbench for declaring that [[Andrew Peacock]] was "gone" if they lost the next election.
*15 February – The [[Reserve Bank of Australia]] cuts official interest rates by half a percent – a move which Federal Opposition MP [[John Hewson]] described as "blatantly playing politics".
*16 February – Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] announces a 24 March election date.
*25 February – A televised debate between Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] and Opposition Leader [[Andrew Peacock]] reinforces [[Bob Hawke]]'s position.
*28 February – [[Bob Carr]] moves to suspend Standing Orders in New South Wales Legislative Assembly to move a motion to condemn National Party Leader and Deputy Premier [[Wal Murray]] for allegedly interfering with proper tendering procedures in respect of the Walsh Bay redevelopment.

===March===
*5 March – 
**Queensland State Cabinet gives Commission of Inquiry status to the investigation which Mr [[Tony Fitzgerald]], QC, will conduct into the future management and conservation of [[Fraser Island]].
**Federal Opposition Leader, [[Andrew Peacock]], launches the Liberal Party's policy for the upcoming Federal Election.
*6 March – The New South Wales Auditor-General clears the New South Wales Rail Chief, Sayers, of any wrongdoing.
*7 March – The New South Wales Government launches its "Statecare" environmental policies on the same day that an oil slick is washed up on three Sydney beaches.
*9 March – 
**A "sombre, serious and responsible" Labor campaign is launched in [[Brisbane]], 4 days after the Liberal Party's glitzy launch.
**Bushfires burn in the Adelaide Hills.
*11 March – 
**The Queensland Government introduces new heritage laws to protect heritage buildings from demolition by developers.
**Criminal [[Abe Saffron]] is released from prison.
*19 March – 
**Cyclone Ivor batters the Queensland coast.
**Wild storms hit Sydney.
**The Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody is to focus on police in a new inquiry.
*20 March – 
**[[Serial killer]] [[John Wayne Glover]] is arrested for a series of "[[North Shore Granny Murders|Granny Murders]]" on Sydney's [[North Shore (Sydney)|North Shore]].
*21 March – 
**Allegations are revealed that a Minister misled New South Wales Parliament over North Coast land deals.
**[[Alan Bond]] sells off his brewing interests and Bond Media to Bell Resources.
*22 March – Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] admits that Australia is in the first stages of recession.
*23 March-
**A bushfire sweeps through the Adelaide Hills.
**Police conduct a drug raid on the Heidelberg Hotel, angering civil libertarian groups.
**Aboriginal groups accuse Charles Perkins of joining in an attack on land rights by the New South Wales Government.
**The ''Law Reform (Decriminalisation of Sodomy) Act 1989'', decriminalising private sexual acts between two people of the same sex in Western Australia, goes into effect.
*24 March – A [[1990 Australian federal election|federal election]] is held. The government of Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] is re-elected for a fourth term with its lowest primary vote ever – 39.4% and the loss of 8 seats.  [[Australian Democrats]] Leader [[Janine Haines]] fails in her bid for the South Australian Lower House seat of Kingston, and National leader Charles Blunt loses his northern New South Wales seat of Richmond, largely on anti-nuclear Helen Caldicott's preferences.  In North Sydney, popular ex-mayor Ted Mack becomes the first genuine Independent to win a House seat since World War II.  The number of [[Australian Democrats]] Senators increases to 8.
*25 March – A bomb and poison attack is instigated against an Adelaide poultry processing plant.
*26 March – Finance Minister Senator [[Peter Walsh (Australian politician)|Peter Walsh]] makes unflattering remarks about poll-driven policies having undermined the careful work of Cabinet's Economic Review Committee and declines to stay in the Ministry.

===April===
*3 April – 
**The [[Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, 1990]] takes place, with Dr. [[John Hewson]] being elected as Leader, and [[Peter Reith]] as Deputy Leader of the Federal Liberal Party.
**The fourth Hawke Ministry is announced – Treasurer [[Paul Keating]] replaces the retired [[Lionel Bowen]] as Deputy Prime Minister, Senator [[Graham Richardson]] transfers from the Environment portfolio to Social Security and the centre left faction loses out in the extensive reshuffle. 
**The South Australian Government releases its final report on the [[Murder of George Duncan]] finding that there was insufficient evidence to charge any person with the murder which took place on 10 May 1972.
*11 April – [[Tim Fischer]] unexpectedly beats John Sharp for the leadership of the [[National Party of Australia]].  He pledges to restore his party's traditional base in rural and provincial Australia.

===May===
* The 80 Series [[Toyota Land Cruiser]] goes on sale in Australia for the first time. It is considered to be the greatest [[4WD]] ever built.
*6 May – Six people die in the [[Cowan rail accident]], when a [[CityRail]] Interurban train collides with a [[3801 Limited]] steam locomotive on the banks of the [[Hawkesbury River]] in New South Wales.
*14 May – A bitter public row between [[Paul Keating]] and [[John Button (Australian politician)|John Button]] over tariff policy leads critics to cast further doubt on Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]]'s ability to discipline his ministers.
*21 May – The Federal Government rejects calls from the New South Wales Government for a Royal Commission into the Mafia and its alleged links to the assassination of Police Chief Colin Winchester.

===June===
*8 June – Two major Queensland firms involved in the building industry collapse, costing hundreds of jobs and leaving projects worth millions of dollars in jeopardy.
*10 June – The Federal Health Minister announces that Medicare is to be overhauled for the first time in its six-year history to produce a better targeted, more efficient system with a stronger emphasis on community care and preventative programs.    
*15 June –
**The Federal Government admits it can't stop Indonesia giving aid to thousands of Cambodians heading to Australia, renewing fears of an influx of boat people.
**Hundreds of Aborigines and their supporters march to New South Wales Parliament House to demonstrate against a plan to replace the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council.
*16 June – Queensland Premier [[Wayne Goss]] announces that virgin forests on Fraser Island will be protected under a historic agreement between conservationists and the timber industry. 
*19 June – 
**Solomon Lew's luxury cruiser "Voyage Solo" erupts into flames at North Wharf.
**Tasmanian Labor Party Senator Terry Aulich is cleared of an assault charge.
*20 June – 
**The Victorian Government is humiliated following the downgrading of the State's credit rating by Moody Investor Services.
**The first legal brothel opens in Melbourne's Central Business District.
*24 June – The Victorian Government orders the closure of the Farrow Corporation building societies Pyramid, Geelong and Countrywide.
*28 June – The Premiers' Conference takes place and Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] outlines his vision of a new co-operative federalism for Australia for the 21st century.

===July===
*10 July – [[Bob Hawke]] becomes Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister (after [[Robert Menzies]]).
*19 July – Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] announces that the Commonwealth will work with the States to achieve effective supervision of deposit-taking, non-bank institutions.
*20 July – 
**Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] announces that some public service jobs would be cut under reforms to eliminate Commonwealth-State duplication.
**New South Wales Education and Youth Affairs Minister, Dr [[Terry Metherell]], resigns from his ministry after revealing he faces tax charges.

===August===
*2 August – Former South Australian Premier [[Don Dunstan]] attacks Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] over his apparent reversal in Government policy on Fiji's new constitution.
*7 August – [[John Cain II|John Cain]] resigns as [[Premier of Victoria]] over a series of financial scandals, and is replaced by the first female premier of Victoria, [[Joan Kirner]].
*10 August – 
**The [[State Bank of Victoria]] is sold to the [[Commonwealth Bank of Australia]] for AU$1.6b, in the wake of bad debts run up by the State Bank's Tricontinental subsidiary in the 1980s.
**Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] announces that Australia will send two frigates to join the naval blockade of Iraq in the [[Gulf War]] which followed Iraq's annexation of Kuwait.  Protests ensued.
*21 August – Measures announced in the Federal Budget – an assets test on family allowances, the cutting of pharmaceutical benefits and taxes on imputed pensioner income from investments – all provoke community outcry.

===September===
*1 September – Liberal candidate Tony Packard wins the Hills by-election in New South Wales.
*5 September – The Queensland Government hands down its first budget under Premier [[Wayne Goss]], which sets out a plan for increased spending on education, the police, aged care and the environment.
*9 September – New South Wales Premier [[Nick Greiner]] announces a ban on beachfront high-rise developments and says his State "is no place for the Queensland white-shoe brigade".
*14 September – Following the blockading of [[Parliament House, Canberra]] by hundreds of logging rigs, Federal Cabinet agrees to interim logging in 15 National Estate areas.
*16 September – Meeting in Perth 30 representatives of a range of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual organisations agree to form the Pride Collective (WA).
*18 September – [[Melbourne]] loses its bid to host the [[1996 Olympic Games]] to the American city of [[Atlanta]].
*24 September – A special [[Australian Labor Party]] Conference endorses the privatisation of [[Qantas]] and Australian Airlines, the merger of OTC and Telecom and the sale of Aussat, despite the misgivings of the Left faction.

===October===
*1 October – The [[Tasmanian Greens]] terminate the [[Labor–Green Accord]] after Tasmania adopts the federal government's Forests and Forest Industry Strategy.
*2 October – Opera singer Dame [[Joan Sutherland]] announces her retirement.
*5 October – After one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days, ''[[The Herald (Melbourne)|The Herald]]'' [[broadsheet]] newspaper in [[Melbourne]] is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. Founded in 1840 as ''The Port Phillip Herald'', it is merged with its morning [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] sister paper ''[[The Sun News-Pictorial]]'' and the first issue of the new ''[[Herald Sun|Herald-Sun]]'', described by owner [[Rupert Murdoch]] as "the world's first 24-hour newspaper", with morning and afternoon editions, is published on 8 October. On the same day, the 49-year-old afternoon tabloid ''[[The Daily Mirror (Australia)|The Daily Mirror]]'' in [[Sydney]] is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. ''The Daily Mirror'' is merged with its morning sister paper ''The Daily Telegraph'' and the first edition of ''[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph-Mirror]]'' also appears on 8 October.
*8 October – Federal Cabinet endorses logging in 40% of the disputed New South Wales south-eastern forests, to the dismay of environmentalists.
*27 October – A [[1990 Northern Territory general election|general election]] is held in the [[Northern Territory]]. The [[Country Liberal Party]] government of [[Marshall Perron]] is returned to power.
*29 October – Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] makes an announcement promising the States more access to Government revenue.
*30 October – A special Premiers' Conference is held in Brisbane.  State Premiers agree with the Commonwealth to streamline transport rules under an historic agreement providing for national registration and licensing.

===November===
*1 November – The Australian domestic aviation market is [[Deregulation|deregulated]].
*12 November – Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] announces that the risk of war in the Persian Gulf had increased as two more Australian guided missile vessels left for the Gulf.
*14 November – Former Queensland Health Minister [[Leisha Harvey]] is sentenced to twelve months in gaol after being found guilty of thirteen counts of misappropriating public money.
*16 November – Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] and Queensland Premier [[Wayne Goss]] announce that the Federal and State Governments will provide $11&nbsp;million to manage the 621,566 hectares of rainforest between Townsville and Cooktown.
*21 November – The Queensland state caucus amends the Criminal Code and the ''Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1978–1989'' to decriminalise consensual sexual activity between adult males in private.
*29 November – Federal Treasurer [[Paul Keating]] announces that Australia is experiencing an economic [[recession]].

===December===
*7 December – [[Paul Keating]] remarks at a Press Gallery dinner that Australia has never had a strong leader.  He is forced to make a public apology to Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] on 10 December.
*11 December – Media company [[Fairfax Media|Fairfax]] is placed in receivership.
*12 December – Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] publicly states that skilled journalists are more important than diverse media ownership to the media's crucial democratic role.

==Arts and literature==
* [[Tom Flood]]'s novel ''[[Oceana Fine]]'' wins the [[Miles Franklin Award]]
* [[1990 in Australian literature]]

==Film==
* 20 September – ''[[The Big Steal (1990 film)|The Big Steal]]'' is released. Directed by [[Nadia Tass]], the film will go on to be nominated for nine AFI awards, of which it will win three.
* [[Blood Oath (film)|Blood Oath]]

==Television==
*July – [[Kerry Packer]] purchases back control of the [[Nine Network]] for [[Australian Dollar|A$]]250&nbsp;million from [[Alan Bond (businessman)|Alan Bond]], who purchased it from him for $1&nbsp;billion in 1987.
*14 September – [[Westpac]] puts [[Network Ten]] into receivership.
*27 December – [[RTQ|WIN Television]] purchases [[Star TV (Australia)|Star Television]] just three days before [[Queensland]] is due to be [[Regional television in Australia#Aggregation|aggregated]], giving them the Nine Network affiliation and leaving [[Southern Cross Ten#Queensland|QTV]], who were going to take the Nine affiliation, with the Network Ten affiliation.
*31 December – The Queensland [[Regional television in Australia|regional television]] market is aggregated, with Sunshine Television Network (now [[Seven Queensland]]) taking a [[Seven Network|Seven]] affiliation, [[WIN Television]] taking a Nine affiliation, and [[Southern Cross Ten|QTV]] with the Ten affiliation.
*The Seven Network is placed in [[receivership]].

==Sport==
*1 January – The VFL is renamed as the AFL ([[Australian Football League]]).<ref>[http://mm.afl.com.au/afl_heritage/chronology.htm Chronology of Australian Football] ((Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120710140723/http://mm.afl.com.au/afl_heritage/chronology.htm |date=10 July 2012 )), ''It's More Than A Game!''.</ref>
*22 January – John McEnroe is thrown out of the Australian Open Tennis Championships.<ref name="auto"/>
*27 January – Steffi Gras wins the Australian Open Tennis Championship.
**Hayley Lewis wins her fourth gold medal at the Auckland Commonwealth Games.
*28 January – Lisa Curry wins a gold medal at the Auckland Commonwealth Games.
*30 March – First day of the Australian Track & Field Championships for the 1989–1990 season, which are held at the [[Olympic Park, Melbourne|Olympic Park]] in [[Melbourne]]. The men's 10,000 metres event was conducted at [[Canberra]] on 24 February 1990.
*22 May – [[New South Wales]] (13.8.86) upsets Victoria (10.16.76) in a [[Interstate matches in Australian rules football#State of origin|State of Origin]] match at the [[Sydney Cricket Ground|SCG]].
*22 July – [[Allan Carman]] wins the men's national marathon title, clocking 2:15:17 in [[Brisbane]], while [[Trudy Fenton]] claims the women's title in 2:44:38.
*23 July – Players' draft adopted at board meeting of [[New South Wales Rugby League|NSWRL]].
*8 September – Collingwood draws its elimination final with the [[West Coast Eagles]]. The AFL finals schedule is thrown into chaos and the Grand Final is rescheduled to be played a week later than usual. [[Overtime (sports)|Extra time]] is subsequently introduced for future finals matches.
*23 September – [[Canberra Raiders]] defeat [[Penrith Panthers]] 18–14 to win the 83rd [[National Rugby League|NSWRL]] premiership, their second straight. Raiders halfback [[Ricky Stuart]] is awarded the [[Clive Churchill medal]] for man of the match. [[South Sydney Rabbitohs]] finish in last position, claiming the wooden spoon.
*6 October – [[Collingwood Football Club|Collingwood]] (13.11.89) defeats [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]] (5.11.41) to win the 94th [[Australian Football League|VFL]]/[[Australian Football League|AFL]] premiership. It is the first premiership won under the AFL banner and [[Collingwood Football Club|Collingwood]]'s first premiership since 1958, thereby symbolising the end of the "Colliwobbles".
*10 November – [[Mal Meninga]] scores a stunning last-minute try to win the second Ashes [[rugby league]] test at [[Old Trafford (football)|Old Trafford]].

==Births==
* 2 January – [[Chris Sabburg]], cricketer
* 8 January – [[Scott Pye]], racing driver
* 10 January – [[Cody Walker (rugby league)|Cody Walker]], rugby league player
* 13 January – [[Liam Hemsworth]], actor
* 20 January – [[Ray Thompson (rugby league)|Ray Thompson]], rugby league player
* 30 January 
** [[Andrew McCullough]], rugby league player
** [[Mitchell Starc]], cricketer
* 4 February – [[Jake Friend]], rugby league player
* 8 February – [[Daniel Vidot]], Australian-Samoan rugby league player
* 24 March 
** [[Keisha Castle-Hughes]], Australian-born New Zealand actress
** [[Alyssa Healy]], cricketer
* 5 April – [[Patrick Dangerfield]], Australian rules footballer
* 7 April – [[Trent Cotchin]], Australian rules footballer
* 10 April – [[Ricky Leutele]], Australian-Samoan rugby league player
*26 April –[[Carla Krizanic]], lawn bowler<ref>((cite web |title=Lawn Bowls ((!)) Athlete Profile: Carla KRIZANIC - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games |url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/lawn-bowls/athlete-profile-n6027323-carla-krizanic.htm |website=results.gc2018.com |access-date=11 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519031227/https://results.gc2018.com/en/lawn-bowls/athlete-profile-n6027323-carla-krizanic.htm|archive-date=19 May 2022))</ref>
* 1 May – [[Caitlin Stasey]], actress
* 2 May – [[Daria Joura]], artistic gymnast
* 4 May – [[Nic Naitanui]], Australian rules footballer
* 10 May – [[Josh Dugan]], rugby league player
* 22 May – [[Wyatt Roy]], politician
* 7 June
**[[Iggy Azalea]], rapper
**[[Daniel Rich]], Australian rules footballer
* 29 June – [[Aaron Stonehouse]], politician
* 2 July – [[Margot Robbie]], actress<ref>((cite web |title=Margot Robbie ((!)) Biography, Movies, Wolf of Wall Street, & Facts ((!)) Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margot-Robbie |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=2 July 2022 |language=en))</ref>
* 3 July – [[Nathan Gardner]], Rugby league player
* 6 July – [[Jamal Idris]], rugby league player
* 20 July – [[Samantha Harris (model)|Samantha Harris]], model
* 24 July – [[Travis Mahoney]], Olympic swimmer
* 27 July – [[Indiana Evans]], actress
* 25 August – [[Chloe Sims (gymnast)|Chloe Sims]], gymnast
* 1 September – [[Shona Morgan]], gymnast
* 12 September – [[Hollie Dykes]], gymnast
* 15 September – [[Aaron Mooy]], soccer player
* 12 October – [[Olivia Wright]], diver
* 23 October – [[Stan Walker]], singer
* 30 October – [[Melody Hernandez]], artistic gymnast
* 12 November – [[Peter Mata'utia]], Australian-Samoan rugby league player
* 27 November – [[Natasha Scott]], lawn bowler<ref>((cite web |title=Lawn Bowls ((!)) Athlete Profile: Natasha SCOTT - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games |url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/lawn-bowls/athlete-profile-n6027327-natasha-scott.htm |website=results.gc2018.com |access-date=11 March 2021))</ref>
* 9 December – [[Ashleigh Brewer]], actress

==Deaths==
*4 January – [[Henry Bolte]] (born 1908), Premier of Victoria
*9 January – [[Edward McTiernan|Sir Edward McTiernan]] (born 1892), High Court judge and politician
*15 January – [[Peggy van Praagh|Dame Peggy van Praagh]] (born 1910), ballet dancer
*8 February – [[Ernest William Titterton|Sir Ernie Titterton]] (born 1916), nuclear physicist
*14 February – [[Graeme Hole]] (born 1931), cricketer
*10 March – [[Pat McDonald (actress)|Pat McDonald]] (born 1922), actress (''Number 96'', ''Sons & Daughters'')
*10 March – [[Reg Wright|Sir Reg Wright]] (born 1905), Tasmanian Liberal senator
*2 April – [[Ted Hook]] (born 1910), public servant
*15 April – [[William Hart-Smith]] (born 1911), poet
*5 May – [[Gordon Mackie (politician)|Gordon Mackie]] (born 1912), NSW politician
*8 June – [[Herbie Matthews]] (born 1913), Australian Rules football player and coach for the South Melbourne Swans
*21 June – [[Martin Johnston]] (born 1947), poet
*25 June – [[Peggy Glanville-Hicks]] (born 1912), composer
*1 July – [[Albert Field]] (born 1910), Queensland senator
*15 August – [[Jimmy Carruthers]] (born 1929), boxer
*17 August – [[David Martin (Governor)|Sir David Martin]] (born 1933), Governor of New South Wales
*19 August – [[Jim Cavanagh]] (born 1913), ALP politician
*2 September – [[Robert Holmes à Court]] (born 1937), businessman
*26 September – [[James Alexander Forrest|Sir James Forrest]] (born 1905), lawyer
*30 September – [[Patrick White]] (born 1912), author
*14 October – [[Clifton Pugh]] (born 1924), artist
*8 November – [[Helen Cutler]] (born 1923), charity worker and patron
*25 December – [[John Stuart Anderson]] (born 1908), chemist

==See also==
* [[1990 in Australian television]]
* [[List of Australian films of 1990]]

==References==
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