1889 in Australia

Decades:	1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s;
See also:	Other events of 1889; Timeline of Australian history;

The following lists events that happened during 1889 in Australia.

Incumbents

17 August – The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition, featuring works by Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder, was opened in Melbourne.
21 December – The poem "Clancy of the Overflow", by Banjo Paterson, is first published in The Bulletin magazine.

5 October – Norwood defeat Port Adelaide by 2 goals to win the 1889 SAFA Grand Final, the first Grand Final in Australian rules football.
November – Bravo wins the Melbourne Cup^[2]

23 February – Lucy Godiva Woodcock, pacifist, schoolteacher, trade union official and women's activist (died 1968)^[3]
6 March – William Douglas Francis, botanist (died 1959)
18 April – Jessie Street, feminist and suffragette (died 1970)^[4]
20 April – Cuthbert Butler, politician (died 1950)
2 June – Margaret Theadora Allan, community worker (died 1968)
18 September – Doris Blackburn, politician (died 1970)
27 October – Fanny Durack, swimmer (died 1956)
23 November – Harry Sunderland, rugby league administrator (died 1964)^[5]

^ Beresford, Quentin. "Fysh, Sir Philip Oakley (1835–1919)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
^ "THE BOOKMAKERS AND THE MELBOURNE CUP". North Eastern Ensign (Benalla, Vic. : 1872–1938). 15 November 1889. p. 2. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
^ Mitchell, Bruce. "Woodcock, Lucy Godiva (1889–1968)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
^ Radi, Heather. "Street, Lady Jessie Mary (1889–1970)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
^ Sunderland, Harry (1889–1964)