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| 1916 |
| | | New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies sets up a plastic surgery unit at Aldershot, a British military base | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Australia Felix is the first in Henry Handel Richardson's trilogy of novels about her father | |
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| 1920 |
| | | New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies publishes a pioneering text book, Plastic Surgery of the Face | |
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| 1922 |
| | | D.H. Lawrence takes a house in Sydney, where he writes the bulk of his novel Kangaroo | |
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| 1928 |
| | | In only his third Test match, 20-year-old Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a century | |
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| 1928 |
| | | An Aerial Medical Service is launched in Queensland, Australia, subsequently becoming the Flying Doctor Service | |
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| 1928 |
| | | US anthropologist Margaret Mead makes much of trouble-free sex among natives, in Coming of Age in Samoa, but her findings are subsequently disputed | |
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| 1930 |
| | | English pioneer aviator Amy Johnson makes a 19-day solo flight in a Gipsy Moth from Croydon (part of London) to Darwin, Australia | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The New Zealand racehorse Phar Lap wins huge popularity after an easy victory in the Melbourne Cup | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Australian-born composer Percy Grainger writes variations on Handel's tune The Harmonious Blacksmith | |
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