Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/December/December 19

• 1930 – For the first time Perth is linked by telephone to the rest of Australia.
• 1949 – Robert Menzies becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a second time, serving until 1966.
• 1955 – Dame Edna Everage, played by Barry Humphries, makes her stage debut.
• 1967 – John McEwen becomes the eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia following the disappearance of Harold Holt.
• 1991 – Paul Keating makes his second Labor leadership challenge. This time, he wins 56–51 and becomes Australia's 24th Prime Minister the next day.