1898 in Australia

Decades:	1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s;
See also:	Other events of 1898; Timeline of Australian history;

The following lists events that happened during 1898 in Australia.

Incumbents

6 May - The paddle steamer Maitland sinks near Broken Bay, drowning 24 people.
3–4 June - A referendum is held in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria to approve the draft Constitution of Australia. The constitution was accepted by the required majority in South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, but not in New South Wales.
17 October - The Perth Zoo opens with two lions and a tiger.
26 December - Gatton murders - Three members of the same family are sexually molested and murdered near the town of Gatton, Queensland (unsolved).
The Queen Victoria Building in Sydney is completed

Nothing much that is important happened to do with science and technology.

W. Lister Lister wins the Wynne Prize for landscape painting or figure sculpture for his landscape The Last Gleam

12 February - Sali Herman (died 1993), war artist
17 May - Stanley Frederick Utz (died 1974), businessman
20 May - Matthew O'Sullivan (died 1967), senator and salesmen
24 September - Howard Florey (died 1968), pharmacologist and Nobel Prize winner
9 December - Irene Greenwood (died 1992), radio broadcaster, feminist and peace activist^[1]

^ Fisher, Catherine Horne. "Greenwood, Irene Adelaide (1898–1992)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
^ Jones, Helen. "Colton, Mary (1822–1898)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University. Retrieved 29 December 2019.