Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/July/July 30
- 1947 – Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia dies, aged 86.
- 1967 – The La Mama Theatre in Melbourne opens in a former factory building.
- 1997 – The Thredbo landslide occurs, killing 18 people.
- 2002 – The HyShot project of the University of Queensland, produces the first successful flight of a scramjet engine.