1939 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1939 in Australia. == Incumbents == Monarch – George VI Governor-General – Alexander Hore-Ruvthen, 1st Baron Gowrie Prime Minister – Joseph Lyons (until 7 April), then Sir Earle Page (until 26 April), then Robert Menzies Chief Justice – Sir John Latham === State Premiers === Premier of New South Wales – Bertram Stevens (until 5 August) then Alexander Mair Premier of Queensland – William Forgan Smith Premier of South Australia – Thomas Playford IV Premier of Tasmania – Albert Ogilvie (until 10 June), then Edmund Dwyer-Gray (until 18 December), then Robert Cosgrove Premier of Victoria – Albert Dunstan Premier of Western Australia – John Willcock === State Governors === Governor of New South Wales – John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst Governor of Queensland – Sir Leslie Orme Wilson Governor of South Australia – Sir Winston Dugan (until 23 February), then Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey (from 12 August) Governor of Tasmania – Sir Ernest Clark Governor of Victoria – William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield (until 4 April), then Sir Winston Dugan (from 17 July) Governor of Western Australia – none appointed == Events == 8 January – Federal interior minister John McEwen released a white paper detailing the New Deal for Aborigines, a policy by which Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory could receive full civil rights in exchange for cultural assimilation.