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The 1920's

1920 - Thursday, January 22: Newly elected farmer and country Federal and State MPs met at Parliament House in Melbourne to form the Australian Country Party.
1920 - Friday, January 30: The Hon. Sir Arthur Lyulph Stanley, K.C.M.G. retired as Governor of Victoria.
1920 - Friday, August 13: Princes Highway between Melbourne and Sydney is officially opened at Warragul.
1920 - Thursday, September 30: Dissolution of 25th Victorian Parliament.
1920 - Wednesday, October 13: Wireless telephony was first demonstrated at Parliament House, Melbourne to Federal MPs and others by Ernest Fisk of AWA where a broadcast was heard in Queen's Hall from a private home in Brighton. Prime Minister, Billy Hughes organised for Fisk to set up the equipment in Queen's Hall. An aerial was placed on the roof and the transmitting equipment set up at the home of AWA employee, Lionel Hooke. Distinguished guests were given a lecture and at 7pm the performance began with the first musical item on radio, Miss L. Walker (recent winner of a Melba scholarship) singing 'Advance Australia Fair', applicable as Dame Nellie had sung it herself in an experimental broadcast in England.
1920 - Thursday, October 21: A general election was held in Victoria.
1920 - Wednesday, November 10: Opening of 26th Victorian Parliament.
1921 - Thursday, February 24: Col. The Right Hon. George Edward John Mowbray, Earl of Stradbroke, K.C.M.G., C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E. Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty the King was sworn in as Governor of Victoria.
1921 - Tuesday, March 29: Samuel John Everett Loxton, cricketer and Victorian politician, was born at Albert Park, Melbourne.
1921 - Saturday, August 6: Dissolution of 26th Victorian Parliament.
1921 - Tuesday, August 30: A general election was held in Victoria.
1921 - Tuesday, September 6: The Opening of the 7th Victorian Parliament was celebrated.
1923 - Wednesday, August 15: James Disney (MLC Melbourne West) introduced a private member's bill entitled 'Parliamentary Elections (Women Candidates) Bill' enabling women to stand for elections in both the Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council.
1923 - Tuesday, August 21: Royal Commission on charges made in respect of a certain contract for the extension of the Warrnambool breakwater was established.
1923 - Wednesday, August 29: The Hon. Sir Francis Grenville Clarke became Victoria's 8th President of the Legislative Council.
1923 - Friday, September 7: Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson assumed office as Premier of Victoria for a second term.
1923 - Tuesday, October 2: Royal Commission on the high cost of living established.
1923 - Tuesday, October 9: Royal Commission on Victorian outer ports established.
1923 - Monday, October 15: Victorian Premier Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson was born.
1923 - Thursday, November 1: Victoria Police strike (refer to Hansard).
1923 - Thursday, November 22: Royal Commission on charges made in respect of a certain contract for the extension of the Warrnambool breakwater presented its final report to Parliament.
1924 - Saturday, January 26: 3AR in Melbourne, Victoria's first radio station commences broadcasting.
1924 - Tuesday, February 5: Royal Commission to inquire into the affairs and transactions of the Kendenup Fruit Packing Co. and the De Garis (W.A.) Development Co. Ltd. (in liquidation) was established.
1924 - Monday, April 28: Sir Alexander James Peacock assumed office for his second term as Premier of Victoria.; Premier of Victoria Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson retired from office having served 2231 days.
1924 - Wednesday, April 30: The Hon. Sir John Bowser became Victoria's 13th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
1924 - Monday, May 12: Royal Assent given to Parliamentary Elections (Women Candidates) Act which granted women the right to stand as candidates for election and hold a seat in either of the houses of the Victorian Parliament. The first female candidate to stand for election in the Victorian Parliament was Alicia Katz (Labor), who on 24 May 1924, stood for the Legislative Assembly seat of Barwon. Katz was unsuccessful and it was not until 11 November 1933 that Victoria's had its first female MP. Lady Millie Peacock (United Australia Party) was elected unopposed in a by-election for the lower house seat of Allandale, following the death of her husband, Sir Alexander Peacock (three times Premier of Victoria).
1924 - Monday, May 26: Alicia Katz became the first female candidate to stand for a seat in the Victorian Parliament. She contested the Legislative Assembly seat of Barwon as a Labor candidate but was unsuccessful, gaining 30.46% of the vote.
1924 - Wednesday, May 28: Dissolution of 27th Victorian Parliament.
1924 - Thursday, June 26: A general election was held in Victoria.
1924 - Thursday, July 3: Royal Commission to inquire into the affairs and transactions of the Kendenup Fruit Packing Co. and the De Garis (W.A.) Development Co. Ltd. (in liquidation) presented its final report to Parliament.
1924 - Friday, July 4: Royal Commission on the high cost of living presented its final report to Parliament.
1924 - Tuesday, July 8: Opening of 28th Victorian Parliament.
1924 - Friday, July 18: George Michael Prendergast assumed office as Premier of Victoria.
1924 - Friday, July 25: The Commonwealth Parliament passed the Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Bill, introducing a Ł2 fine for all eligible voters who failed to vote in Commonwealth elections without adequate reason.
1924 - Wednesday, July 30: Royal Commission to investigate the prices of bread, wheat and flour was established.
1924 - Thursday, August 28: Royal Commission on the Victorian police force was established.
1924 - Sunday, September 7: Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson assumed office as Premier of Victoria for a third term.
1924 - Saturday, September 13: Royal Commission to investigate the prices of bread, wheat and flour presented its final report to Parliament.
1924 - Wednesday, October 22: Royal Commission into Hospital for the insane, Kew was established.
1924 - Tuesday, November 18: Premier of Victoria George Michael Prendergast retired from office having served 124 days.; John Allan assumed office as Premier of Victoria.
1924 - Monday, November 24: Royal Commission into Hospital for the insane, Kew presented its final report to Parliament.
1925 - Wednesday, January 21: Royal Commission on soldier settlement established.
1925 - Thursday, January 29: Royal Commission on the Victorian police force presented its final report to Parliament.
1925 - Tuesday, April 21: Royal Commission respecting the Bendigo sewerage authority established.
1925 - Thursday, June 18: Royal Commission respecting the Bendigo sewerage authority presented its final report to Parliament.
1925 - Wednesday, July 22: Regular airmail service begins between Melbourne and Sydney.
1925 - Friday, October 23: Royal Commission on soldier settlement presented its final report to Parliament.
1926 - Wednesday, March 3: Royal Commission on the status and affairs of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria; and the scope and working of the State Electricity Commission Acts established.
1926 - Wednesday, April 7: Col. The Right Hon. George Edward John Mowbray, Earl of Stradbroke, K.C.M.G., C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E. Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty the King retired as Governor of Victoria
1926 - Wednesday, May 19: Royal Commission on the status and affairs of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria; and the scope and working of the State Electricity Commission Acts presented its final report to Parliament.
1926 - Monday, June 28: Lt. Col. The Right Hon. Arthur Herbert Tennyson, the Baron Somers, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C. was sworn in as Governor of Victoria.
1926 - Thursday, July 1: Eric Frazer, Victoria’s longest serving Parliamentary Librarian, appointed to the post. He retired in 1957.
1926 - Wednesday, September 1: Royal Commission on sanitation established.
1926 - Wednesday, November 10: Royal Commission on sanitation presented its final report to Parliament.
1926 - Thursday, December 23: Compulsory voting introduced for Victorian Legislative Assembly elections.
1927 - Saturday, March 5: Dissolution of 28th Victorian Parliament.
1927 - Thursday, March 24: Australian federal parliament sits in Melbourne for the last time before moving to Canberra.
1927 - Saturday, April 9: A general election was held in Victoria.
1927 - Tuesday, May 3: The All-Australian Trade Union Congress opened in Melbourne at the Trades Hall with W.J. Duggan of the Trades Hall as Chairman. There were 159 delegates from 108 unions and branches, mostly from Victoria, who went on at this Congress to found the Australasian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).
1927 - Monday, May 9: Australia's new Federal Parliament House building in Canberra was completed and officially opened by the Duke of York.
1927 - Friday, May 20: Premier of Victoria John Allan retired from office having served 914 days.; Edmond John Hogan assumed office as Premier of Victoria.
1927 - Wednesday, July 6: The Opening of the 29th Victorian Parliament was celebrated.; The Hon. Oswald Robinson Snowball became Victoria's 14th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
1927 - Friday, August 5: Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the origin, promotion and management of the Amalgamated Freezing Company (Victoria) Pty. Ltd.
1927 - Thursday, October 27: Criminals Squizzy Taylor and Snowy Cutmore are killed in a shootout at Carlton, Melbourne.
1927 - Monday, December 19: Royal Commission into the origin, promotion and management of the Amalgamated Freezing Company (Victoria) Pty. Ltd. presented its final report to Parliament.
1928 - Thursday, February 2: Royal Commission on the dairying industry was established.
1928 - Thursday, April 12: Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the control, management, working and financial position of the Victorian Railways.
1928 - Saturday, June 9: Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm with the Americans, Harry Lyon as navigator and Jim Warner, radio operator, made a safe landing in their Fokker aircraft 'Southern Cross' at Eagle Farm airport at Brisbane at 10.13 am to a massive joyous reception from about 300,000 people gathered to meet them after their 7389 mile flight across the Pacific from San Francisco.
1928 - Wednesday, July 4: The Hon. Sir Alexander James Peacock became Victoria's 15th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
1928 - Tuesday, September 4: George Swinburne, businessman, politician and philanthropist, collapsed and died in the Legislative Council chamber at the Melbourne Parliament House, aged 67.
1928 - Tuesday, October 9: The Legislative Assembly adopts from the Council the practice of reading a prayer at the commencement of each sitting day
1928 - Monday, November 5: Royal Commission into the control, management, working and financial position of the Victorian Railways presented its final report to Parliament.
1928 - Tuesday, November 13: Royal Commission on the dairying industry presented its final report to Parliament. (Exact date uncertain.)
1928 - Thursday, November 22: Premier of Victoria Edmond John Hogan retired from office having served 553 days.; Sir William Murray McPherson assumed office as Premier of Victoria.
1928 - Monday, December 3: Royal Commission on Victorian outer ports presented its final report to Parliament.
1929 - Tuesday, February 12: The third consolidation in alphabetical order of Victorian public general Acts operative 12 February 1929
1929 - Monday, July 15: Royal Commission appointed to inquire into and report upon the prices of flour and bread.
1929 - Friday, November 1: Dissolution of 29th Victorian Parliament.
1929 - Saturday, November 30: A general election was held in Victoria.
1929 - Wednesday, December 11: the Opening of the 30th Victorian Parliament was celebrated.
1929 - Thursday, December 12: Premier of Victoria Sir William Murray McPherson retired from office having served 386 days.; Edmond John Hogan assumed office as Premier of Victoria, forming the third Labor Government with support of Country Party and Independents.