1888 in Australia

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Premier of New South Wales – Henry Parkes
Premier of Queensland – Samuel Griffith (until 13 June), then Thomas McIlwraith (until 30 November), then Boyd Dunlop Morehead
Premier of South Australia – Thomas Playford II
Premier of Tasmania – Philip Fysh
Premier of Victoria – Duncan Gillies

27 January – Centennial Park is opened in Sydney.
30 January – The Presbyterian Church of New South Wales establishes its first school, the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney.
1 July – "The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women" first published by Louisa Lawson, in Sydney.
1 August – The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition is opened.
4 October – Princes Bridge, Melbourne is opened.
9 October – Launceston, Tasmania is proclaimed a city.
25 October – The captain of the HMQS Gayundah, Henry Townley Wright, refuses to relinquish his command after being ordered to do so by the Queensland government. The Colonial Secretary orders Wright be dismissed from the Queensland Maritime Defence Force, and has him removed from the ship by Queensland Police.^[1]

Excavation begins on the water supply tunnels beneath Fremantle Prison, in Western Australia.
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Angus & Robertson publish their first book, A Crown of Wattle, a collection of poetry by H. Peden Steel

21 February – William Weston (born 1804), Premier of Tasmania (1857)
30 May – Louis Buvelot (born 1814), painter
15 August – Robert Seddon (born 1860), British rugby union player
9 October – Anthony Musgrave (born 1828), Governor of South Australia (1873–1877) and Queensland (1883–1888)
28 October – William Bede Dalley, Australia's first member of the Privy Council.^[2]

^ "THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT AND CAPTAIN WRIGHT". The Argus. Melbourne. 26 October 1888. p. 10. Retrieved 2 March 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Nairn, Bede; Rutledge, Martha. "Dalley, William Bede (1831–1888)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 21 March 2018.

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