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Incumbents
- Queen
of Australia – Elizabeth
II
- Governor
General – Sir
Paul Hasluck
- Prime Minister – William
McMahon, then Gough
Whitlam
- Chief Justice – Sir Garfield Barwick
State
premiers
- Premier of New South Wales – Sir
Robert Askin
- Premier of South Australia – Don
Dunstan
- Premier of Queensland – Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen
- Premier of Tasmania – Angus
Bethune, then Eric
Reece
- Premier of Western Australia – John
Tonkin
- Premier of Victoria – Sir
Henry Bolte, then Rupert
Hamer
- Chief Minister of the Northern Territory – Marshall
Perron
State
governors
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir Roden Cutler
- Governor of Queensland – Sir
Alan Mansfield (until
21 March) then Sir Colin
Hannah
- Governor of South Australia –
Sir Mark
Oliphant
- Governor of Tasmania – Lieutenant
General Sir Edric Bastyan
- Governor of Victoria – Major
General Sir Rohan Delacombe
- Governor of Western Australia – Major
General Sir Douglas Kendrew
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