en 1900 in Australia

Decades:	1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s;
See also:	Other events of 1900; Timeline of Australian history;

The following lists events that happened during 1900 in Australia.

Incumbents

Note: Australia was not yet federalized in 1900, therefore no prime minister existed.

3 January – Electric lighting is installed on Adelaide streets.
25 January – State Labour politicians meet in Sydney to formally found the federal Labour party.
25 March – The S.S. Glenelg is wrecked off the Victorian coast, resulting in 31 deaths.
March to May – Record rainfall and flooding affect the Pilbara and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia
9 May – The Sierra Nevada is wrecked off Portsea, Victoria; 23 lives are lost.
2 July – Snow falls to extremely low levels in New South Wales, being recorded as low as Forbes.
5 July – The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (UK) is passed.
24 July – Neville Howse rescues a fallen ally under heavy fire during the Second Boer War, becoming the first Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross.
8 August – The first Australian contingents of naval volunteers set sail for China to assist British and international troops during the Boxer Rebellion.
17 October – Natural gas is found at Roma in Queensland
27 October – Notorious murderer Jimmy Governor is apprehended near Wingham, New South Wales.
15 December – Upon his arrival in Australia, the first Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun, commits the so-called Hopetoun Blunder.

14 September – The film Soldiers of the Cross is shown in Melbourne, one of the first films shown in Australia. (IMDb entry)

8 January – Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (died 1982)
25 January – Harold Raggatt, public servant (died 1968)
7 March – Sir Lorimer Dods, medical pioneer (died 1981)
29 March – John McEwen, caretaker Prime Minister (1967–1968) (died 1980)
26 April – Alice Berry, social activist (died 1978)^[1]
29 April – Amelia Best, politician (died 1979)^[2]
4 July – Belinda Dann, centenarian, longest-lived member of the Stolen Generation (died 2007).^[3]
29 July – Mary V. Austin, community worker and political activist (died 1986)^[4]
16 August – Ida Browne, geologist and palaeontologist (died 1976)^[5]
9 October – Frank O'Grady, Australian public servant (d. 1981)^[6]
19 October – Bill Ponsford, cricketer (died 1991)
20 October – Jack Lindsay, writer (died 1990)
3 December – Albert Hawke, Premier of Western Australia (1953–1959) (died 1989)

^ "Biography - Dame Alice Miriam Berry - Australian Dictionary of Biography". 5 March 2016. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^ "1900". Members of the Parliament of Tasmania. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
^ "Pilbara woman dies at 107". ABC News. 25 October 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
^ Melbourne, National Foundation for Australian Women and The University of. "Austin, Mary Valentine Hall - Woman - The Australian Women's Register". womenaustralia.info. Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
^ "Biography - Ida Alison Browne - Australian Dictionary of Biography". 16 February 2017. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^ Putnis, Peter, "O'Grady, Francis Phillip (1900–1981)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, archived from the original on 21 November 2014