The following lists events that happened during 1940 in Australia.
Robert Menzies
Story Bridge (built 1940), Brisbane in 2009
A.B.C. truck recording soldiers off to war, Darling Harbour, May 1940
Arts and literature
[edit]- 5 January – Athol Guy, musician
- 19 January – Paul Calvert, Liberal Senator for Tasmania
- 17 February – Marilyn Jones, ballet dancer
- 22 February – Neil Brown, politician
- 24 February – Ian Shelton, Australian rules football player (died 2021)
- 27 February – Bill Hunter, actor (died 2011)
- 1 March – Robin Gray, Premier of Tasmania (1982–1989)
- 8 March – Don Barker, actor
- 19 March – Andrew Taylor, poet
- 20 March – Paul Neville, politician (died 2019)
- 12 April – Jack Hibberd, playwright (died 2024)
- 16 April – Marion Halligan, writer (died 2024)[2]
- 24 April – Trevor Kent, actor (died 1989)
- 26 April – Ian Geoghegan, race car driver (died 2003)
- 15 June – Ken Fletcher, tennis player (died 2006)
- 17 June – Alan Murray, Australian golfer (died 2019)
- 23 June – Diana Trask, country music singer
- 25 June – Judy Amoore, athlete
- 29 June – Ken Done, artist
- 10 July – Keith Stackpole, cricketer (died 2025)
- 3 August – Judith Troeth, Liberal Senator for Victoria
- 16 August – Bruce Beresford, film director
- 18 August – Jan Owen, poet
- 31 August – Jack Thompson, actor
- 8 September – Robin Miller, aviator and nurse (died 1975)
- 9 September – Hugh Morgan, businessman
- 13 September – Kerry Stokes, chairman of the Seven Network
- 15 September – Allan Andrews, NSW politician
- 21 September – John Pochee, jazz musician (died 2022)
- 3 October – Diana Warnock, radio broadcaster and politician
- 4 October – Ian Kiernan, yachtsman and environmentalist, 1994 Australian of the Year (died 2018)
- 5 October – Bob Cowper, cricketer (died 2025)
- 15 October – Peter C. Doherty, medical researcher, Nobel Prize recipient
- 19 October – Ian Causley, politician (died 2020)
- 21 October – Peter Arnison, Governor of Queensland (1997–2003)
- 1 November – John Bell, actor and theatre director
- 4 November – John Sanderson, Governor of Western Australia (2000–2005)
- 12 November – John Dowd, NSW politician
- 9 December – Ron Boswell, politician (died 2026)
- 19 December – Jane Mathews, judge (died 2019)
- 3 February – John Henry Michell, mathematician (b. 1863)
- 5 February – Bill Wilks, New South Wales politician (b. 1863)
- 8 March – Michael Kelly, Catholic archbishop (b. 1850)
- 16 April – Herbert James Carter, entomologist (b. 1858)
- 20 April – Sir Ernest Gaunt, naval admiral (b. 1865)
- 22 June – Monty Noble, cricketer (b. 1873)
- 23 June – Hugh Denis Macrossan, Queensland politician and judge (b. 1881)
- 6 July – Michael O'Connor, Western Australian politician (b. 1865)
- 22 July – Sir George Fuller, 22nd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1861)
- 27 July – Bluey Wilkinson, speedway rider (b. 1911)
- 30 July
- 13 August
- 9 September – Percy Abbott, New South Wales politician (b. 1869)
- 11 September – Issy Smith, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1890)
- 22 September – Robert Blackwood, New South Wales politician (b. 1861)
- 2 October – Albert Green, Western Australian politician (b. 1869)
- 14 October – Helen de Guerry Simpson, novelist (b. 1897)
- 25 October – Thomas Waddell, 15th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1854)
- 31 October
- 2 November – Colin Rankin, Queensland politician and soldier (b. 1869)
- 3 November – James Fowler, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1863)
- 23 November – Sir Stanley Argyle, 32nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1867)
- 11 December – Belle Golding, feminist, suffragist and labour activist (b. 1864)
- 20 December – Tom Foster, composer (b. 1870)
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Robert Menzies
Story Bridge (built 1940), Brisbane in 2009
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A.B.C. truck recording soldiers off to war, Darling Harbour, May 1940
