Waterside workers strike.
23 October. First train leaves Perth for Adelaide on the Trans-Australian Railway, the Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie stretch having been constructed by the Commonwealth Government.
Freotopia
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 11 August, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/timeline/1917.html (it was last updated on 12 August, 2015), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.