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Incumbents
- Monarch – King George VI
- Governor-General – Alexander
Hore-Ruvthen, 1st Baron Gowrie
- Prime Minister – Joseph
Lyons (until 7
April), then Sir
Earle Page (until 26
April), then Robert
Menzies
- Chief Justice – Sir John Latham
State
Premiers
- Premier of New South Wales – Bertram
Stevens (until 5
August) then Alexander
Mair
- Premier of Queensland – William
Forgan Smith
- Premier of South Australia – Thomas
Playford IV
- Premier of Tasmania – Albert
Ogilvie (until 10
June), then Edmund
Dwyer-Gray (until 18
December), then Robert
Cosgrove
- Premier of Victoria – Albert
Dunstan
- Premier of Western Australia – John
Willcock
State
Governors
- Governor of New South Wales – John
Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst
- Governor of Queensland – Sir
Leslie Orme Wilson
- Governor
of South Australia – Sir
Winston Dugan (until
23 February), then Sir
Malcolm Barclay-Harvey (from
12 August)
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir
Ernest Clark
- Governor of Victoria – William
Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield (until
4 April), then Sir
Winston Dugan (from
17 July)
- Governor of Western Australia – none
appointed
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