1834 in Australia

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1 January – The Western Australian Police Force is formed.
14 January – The ten remaining convicts at the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station hijack a brig and escape to Chile in the Frederick escape
28 October – The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14-40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
19 November – The first permanent European settlement on the north coast of Bass Strait is established at Portland by Edward Henty.

5 January – William John Wills, explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1861)
9 January – Roger Vaughan, archbishop (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1883)
14 January – Duncan Gillies, 14th Premier of Victoria (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1903)
25 February – Louisa Atkinson, writer, botanist and illustrator (d. 1872)
1 April – Arthur Orton, butcher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1898)
9 May – Peter Waite, pastoralist, businessman and philanthropist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922)
25 May – John Tebbutt, astronomer (d. 1916)
30 May – Sir Frederick Sargood, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1903)
12 June – Christopher Augustine Reynolds, archbishop (born in Ireland) (d. 1893)
21 July – James Charles Cox, physician and conchologist (d. 1912)
29 September – Sir William Charles Windeyer, New South Wales politician and judge (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1897)
12 October – Sir George Dibbs, 10th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1904)
Unknown, possibly March – Patrick Durack, pastoralist and pioneer (born in Ireland) (d. 1898)

11 April – John Macarthur, New South Wales politician, pastoralist and officer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1767)
7 May – Billy Blue, convict and boatman (born in the United States) (b. 1767)

^ King, Hazel (1966), "Sir Richard Bourke", in Pike, Douglas (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp. 128–133

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