1933 in Australia

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Governor-General – Sir Isaac Isaacs
• Prime Minister – Joseph Lyons
• Chief Justice – Frank Gavan Duffy

  State Premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – Bertram Stevens
• Premier of Queensland – William Forgan Smith
• Premier of South Australia – Lionel Hill, then Robert Richards, then Richard L. Butler
• Premier of Tasmania – John McPhee
• Premier of Victoria – Sir Stanley Argyle
• Premier of Western Australia – James Mitchell, then Philip Collier

  State Governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Sir Philip Game
• Governor of Queensland – Sir Leslie Orme Wilson
• Governor of South Australia – Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven
• Governor of Tasmania – Sir Ernest Clark
• Governor of Victoria – none appointed
• Governor of Western Australia – none appointed

  Events

• 8 April – A referendum is held in Western Australia, which is carried 2 to 1 in favour of secession from the Commonwealth of Australia.
• 26 April – The seaplane carrier,, is paid off into reserve.
• 10 June – The Australian Women's Weekly is first published.
• 13 June – The Australian Antarctic Territory is established.
• 28 August – The Brisbane newspaper, The Courier-Mail, is first published.
• 5 September – Australia signs a trade agreement with New Zealand.
• 6 September – Windscreen wipers become compulsory on all Australian cars.
• 13 October – The first traffic lights in Sydney become operational at the intersection of Kent and Market Streets.

  Arts and literature

• Charles Wheeler wins the Archibald Prize with his portrait of Ambrose Pratt
• Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian, the first Blinky Bill book is published by children's author Dorothy Wall

  Film

• Errol Flynn makes his first film appearance, In the Wake of the Bounty, directed by Charles Chauvel

  Sport

• 9 September – The 1933 NSWRFL season culminates in Newtown's victory against St. George in the premiership final
• Hall Mark wins the Melbourne Cup
• New South Wales wins the Sheffield Shield
• England defeats Australia 4–1 in The Ashes series

  Births

• 2 January – Ed Casey, banker and politician
• 23 January – Bill Hayden, Governor-General of Australia
• 29 January – Rosemary Adey, softball player
• 12 February – Brian Carlson, rugby league footballer
• 20 March – Ian Walsh, rugby league footballer and coach
• 15 April – David Martin, Governor of New South Wales
• 27 May – Michael Crouch, investor, water boiler manufacturer
• 13 July – Kel O'Shea, rugby league footballer
• 25 July – Owen Abrahams, Australian rules footballer
• 27 July – Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer
• 19 August – Patricia Kailis, businesswoman, neurologist and geneticist
• 30 August – Keith Payne, soldier
• 15 September – Monica Maughan, actress
• 3 October – Neale Fraser, tennis player
• 5 October – Diane Cilento, actress
• 11 October – Gary O'Callaghan, radio personality
• 1 December – James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank
• 5 December – Harry Holgate, Premier of Tasmania
• 20 December – Ted Mack, politician
• 26 December – Ugly Dave Gray, television personality

  Deaths

• 7 January – Bert Hinkler, aviation pioneer
• 9 January – Daphne Akhurst, tennis player
• 10 January – Richard Buzacott, Senator for Western Australia
• 17 January – John Hodges, cricketer
• 5 February – Josiah Thomas, miner and politician
• 16 February – Archie Jackson, cricketer
• 21 March – James Edmond, journalist and editor of The Bulletin
• 15 April – Alfred Stephens, writer and literary critic
• 20 April – William Rooke Creswell, naval officer
• 30 April – Robert Hamilton Russell, surgeon
• 4 June – Herbert Basedow, anthropologist, geologist, politician and explorer
• 20 July – William Lowrie, agricultural educationist
• 26 July – Joseph Cooke Verco, physician and conchologist
• 10 August – Alf Morgans, Premier of Western Australia
• 13 November – Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient
• 15 November – Affie Jarvis, cricketer