1922 in Australia

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Governor-General – Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster of Lepe
• Prime Minister – Billy Hughes
• Chief Justice – Adrian Knox

  State premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – James Dooley, then George Fuller
• Premier of Queensland – Ted Theodore
• Premier of South Australia – Henry Barwell
• Premier of Tasmania – Walter Lee, then John Hayes
• Premier of Western Australia – James Mitchell
• Premier of Victoria – Harry Lawson

  State governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Sir Walter Davidson
• Governor of Queensland – Sir Matthew Nathan
• Governor of South Australia – Sir William Weigall, then Sir Tom Bridges
• Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Allardyce
• Governor of Victoria – George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke
• Governor of Western Australia – Sir Francis Newdegate

  Events

• 14 February – Women are allowed to stand for parliament in Tasmania.
• 22 March – The Queensland Legislative Council, the upper house of the Parliament of Queensland is abolished.
• 10 June – A general election is held in Tasmania, which results in a hung parliament.
• 3 July – Queensland abolishes capital punishment, the first state in Australia to do so.
• 12 August – The Country Party and the Nationalist Party form a coalition government in Tasmania, with John Hayes as Premier.

  Science and technology

• 21 September – A total solar eclipse occurs over Australia, allowing scientists to test Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

  Arts and literature

• 4 May – British author D. H. Lawrence arrives in Australia for a three-month holiday, where he will meet Mollie Skinner and write the novel Kangaroo.

  Sport

• 28 February – Victoria wins the Sheffield Shield.
• 30 September – Fitzroy wins the 1922 VFL Grand Final, defeating Collingwood 11.13 to 9.14.
• 7 November – King Ingoda wins the Melbourne Cup.
• The 1922 NSWRFL Premiership is won by North Sydney who defeated Glebe in the final.

  Births

• 5 January – Anthony Synnot, Chief of the Defence Force
• 15 January – Eric Willis, Premier of New South Wales
• 23 January – Tom Lewis, Premier of New South Wales
• 21 February – Fos Williams, Australian rules footballer
• 24 February – Bill Morris, Australian rules footballer
• 14 March – Bob Bignall, soccer player
• 15 March – Hesba Fay Brinsmead, children's author
• 28 March – Neville Bonner, first Indigenous federal MP
• 29 March – Mac Holten, Australian rules footballer and politician
• 30 March – John McLeay, Jr., politician
• 10 April – Nancy Millis, microbiologist
• 9 May – Col Hoy, cricket umpire
• 12 May – Arthur Gorrie, Hobby shop proprietor
• 7 July – Robert Raymond, filmmaker and television pioneer
• 1 August – Pat McDonald, actress
• 23 August – Ronald Wilson, High Court justice
• 30 August – Lionel Murphy, Attorney-General and High Court justice
• 25 September – Ted Baldwin, politician
• 26 September – Leonard Teale, actor
• 7 October – Jim McCabe, Victorian politician
• 1 November – James Rowland, Chief of Air Force and Governor of New South Wales
• 18 November – Una Hale, operatic soprano
• 6 December – Gordon Ada, microbiologist
• 20 December – Geoff Mack, country music singer
• 28 December – Lionel Bowen, politician

  Deaths

• 10 January – Frank Tudor, ALP opposition leader
• 14 February – Bertram Stevens, art critic
• 8 March – Elizabeth Hope, Lady Hope, British evangelist
• 22 March – Arthur Groom, politician and land agent
• 4 April – Peter Waite, rancher and philanthropist
• 7 April – James McGowen, Premier of New South Wales
• 14 April – Rose Summerfield, feminist and labour activist
• 24 April – Colin Campbell Ross, publican executed for the Gun Alley murder
• 30 April – Robert Carl Sticht, metallurgist
• 24 May – James Arthur Pollock, physicist
• 25 May – Roy Redgrave, silent film actor
• 31 May – Jørgen Christian Jensen, Victoria Cross recipient
• 15 June – Alfred Cecil Rowlandson, publisher
• 17 June – Robert Philp, Premier of Queensland
• 11 July – Hans Irvine, Victorian politician and vigneron
• 23 July – Joseph Edmund Carne, geologist
• 30 July – Harry Butler, aviator
• 2 September – Henry Lawson, writer and poet
• 17 September – Kate Rickards, Australian trapeze artist and musical theatre actress
• 26 September – Sir Charles Wade, Premier of New South Wales
• 4 October – Ellis Rowan, naturalist and illustrator
• 17 December – David Lindsay, explorer