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Incumbents

Governor of South Australia - Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe
Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison
Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke, then Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Irwin (acting).

12 February – Sir Albert Gould, New South Wales politician (d. 1936)
19 February – Josiah Howell Bagster, South Australian politician and land agent (d. 1893)
22 February – James Huddart, shipowner and businessman (d. 1901)
6 March – Edward Petherick, book collector and archivist (d. 1917)
13 March – Samuel Cooke, Victorian politician (d. 1929)
5 April – Frederick William Ward, journalist and newspaper editor (d. 1934)
7 April – John Arthur, Tasmanian cricketer (d. 1877)
23 May – Robert Etheridge Jr., paleontologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1920)
23 July – George Sydney Aldridge, businessman (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1911)
22 August – Sir John Forrest, 1st Premier of Western Australia and explorer (d. 1918)
3 October – Henry Montgomery, Anglican bishop (d. 1932)
8 October – Rose Scott, suffragette (d. 1925)
29 October – George Collingridge, writer and illustrator (d. 1931)
11 October – Alexander Bolton, New South Wales politician (d. 1918)
17 November – Archibald Liversidge, chemist (d. 1927)
10 December – Harry Boyle, Test cricketer (d. 1907)

^ Cameron, Angus, ed. (1986). "Part One: Capital City Chronologies". The Second Australian Almanac: An 800-page Databank Crammed with Essential Information for Every Australian. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson. p. 73. ISBN 0-207-15232-2.
^ van Dissel, Dirk (1976). "Short, Augustus (1802 - 1883)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 6. Melbourne University Press. pp. 122–123. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

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