Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/September/September 30


 * 1804 – A government brewery was opened at Parramatta as a means of controlling the consumption of spirits.
 * 1854 – The first game of cricket is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
 * 1889 – The Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway narrow gauge railway in the Northern Territory is officially opened.
 * 1922 – Major General Alan Stretton, former senior Australian Army officer and Australian of the Year was born.
 * 1951 – Barry Marshall, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was born in Kalgoorlie.
 * 1959 – Death of Sir Henry Barwell, former Premier of South Australia.
 * 1976 – Blue Hills, the long running ABC radio serial, comes to an end after 32 years.
 * 1982 – The 1982 Commonwealth Games begin in Brisbane.
 * 1990 – Death of Patrick White, author and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, after a long period of illness.