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Incumbents
- Monarch – King George VI
- Governor-General – Alexander
Hore-Ruthven, 1st Baron Gowrie
- Prime Minister – Robert
Menzies
State
Governors
- Governor of New South Wales – John
Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst
- Governor of Queensland – Sir
Leslie Orme Wilson
- Governor of South Australia – Sir
Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
- Governor
of Tasmania – Sir
Ernest Clark
- Governor of Victoria – Sir
Winston Dugan
- Governor of Western Australia – none
appointed
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