Incumbents
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Events
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Film
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Sport
- March 4 – First day of the Australian Track & Field Championships for the 2004-2005 season, which are held at the Sydney Olympic Park in Homebush. The 10,000 metres (men and women) were conducted at the Zatopek Meet in Melbourne, Victoria on Saturday December 4, 2004. The relays were conducted at Canberra on Sunday February 6, 2005.
- March 6 – Giancarlo Fisichella wins the Australian Grand Prix in his first race for Renault F1 at Albert Park.
- March 19 – Sydney Kings defeat Wollongong Hawks 112-85 in Game 3 of a series sweep in the NBL Grand Final series. The win completed the first and only three-peat in league history.
- April 3 – Suzuki rider Troy Corser takes both race victories in front of his home crowd, Phillip Island at the Superbike World Championship round.
- July 3 – Brett Cartwright wins the men's national marathon title, clocking 2:18:16 in Brisbane, while Jackie Fairweather claims the women's title in 2:34:34.
- August 26 - The inaugural A-League national association football season begins. In the first game, Adelaide United FC defeat the Newcastle United Jets 1-0 at EnergyAustralia Stadium in front of 13,000 people.
- September 3 - The Melbourne Phoenix defeat the Sydney Swifts 61-44 in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy netball grand final.
- September 12 - Cricket: England wins The Ashes back from Australia for the first time since 1987 in The 2005 Ashes series
- September 24 - The Sydney Swans (8.10.58) defeat the West Coast Eagles (7.12.54) to win the 109th VFL/AFL premiership. It is the first flag for the Swans in 72 years.
- October 2 - The Wests Tigers defeat the North Queensland Cowboys 30-16 to win the 98th NSWRL/ARL/NRL premiership. It was the first finals series for the Wests Tigers.
- October 2 - With heavy rain cancelling the second race at Imola, Troy Corser secures his second Superbike World Championship.
- October 9 - Mark Skaife and Todd Kelly win the Super Cheap Auto Bathurst 1000 for the Holden Racing Team. It was Skaife's fifth win, and Kelly's first. It was also a seventh consecutive win for Holden, extending the longest winning streak in the races history.
- October 16 - Valentino Rossi wins his fifth consecutive Australian motorcycle Grand Prix on his Yamaha at Phillip Island.
- November 1 - Makybe Diva wins the Melbourne Cup horse racing event for a historic 3rd time in a row and is immediately retired.
- November 13 - French rallyist François Duval and co-driver Stephane Prevot take victory for in their Citroen Xsara at the season ending Rally Australia.
- November 16 - The Socceroos qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1974, by defeating Uruguay in a penalty shootout at Telstra Stadium.
Births
Deaths
- January 8 - Campbell McComas, 52, impersonator, broadcaster, comedian
- January 11 - Miriam Hyde, composer and pianist
- January 24 - June Bronhill, soprano opera singer
- March 16 - Bob Bellear, first indigenous judge
- March 25 - Davis McCaughey, Governor of Victoria
- March 26 - Paul Hester, drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House (suicide)
- April 23 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Premier of Queensland from 1968-1987.
- April 23 - Al Grassby, politician and minister in the Whitlam government
- April 29 - Sara Henderson, 69, author
- May 1 - René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker
- May 25 - Graham Kennedy, 71, radio and television, performer
- June 9 - Gloria Ida Logan, 78, artist and lecturer
- June 16 - Ross Stretton, ballet dancer and director
- June 25 - Harry Gibbs, Chief Justice of the High Court
- July 3 - W. Rubuntja, Aboriginal artist and activist
- July 15 - Ronald Wilson, Justice of the High Court
- July 17 - Joe Vialls, conspiracy theorist
- July 18 - Amy Gillett, cyclist
- August 29 - Margaret Scott, 70, author and poet
- September 8 - Donald Horne, academic and social critic
- September 9 - John Wayne Glover, serial killer
- October 12 - Frank Galbally, 82, lawyer, criminal advocate, defender in celebrated murder trials; described as the “father of Australian multiculturalism”.
- October 18 - William Evan Allan, World War I veteran
- October 24 - Frank Wilson, actor
- November 1 - Michael Thwaites, intelligence officer and participant in the Petrov Affair
- November 5 - Hugh Alexander Dunn, diplomat
- November 10 - Kristian Fredrikson, stage and costume designer
- December 2 - Peter Menegazzo, cattle baron
- December 3 - Peter Cook, Labor senator
- December 3 - Lance Dossor, concert pianist
- December 5 - Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, entrepreneur
- December 12 - Eric D'Arcy, Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus
- December 26 - Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man & the major shareholder in PBL, which owns the Nine Network, Crown Casino & a large number of magazines.
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