1 March – Bernard O'Reilly locates the wreckage of an Airlines of Australia Stinson airliner, VH-UHH City of Brisbane, in the McPherson Range in southern Queensland. Two survivors are rescued, five others did not survive.
20 April – Regular airmail services begin between Australia and the USA.
21-23 April - The first conference of Commonwealth and State Aboriginal authorities is held in Canberra. The conference sees several resolutions pass with the aim of assimiliating Australian Aboriginals (excluding those deemed full-blooded) in white culture.[1]
24 June – The Commonwealth Literature Censorship Board replaces the Book Censorship Advisory Committee, and temporarily lifts the ban on Ulysses by James Joyce.
Eastern Suburbs win the premiership in a shortened 1937 NSWRFL season. University finish in last place for the fourth year in a row, and voluntarily withdraw from the premiership at the end of the season.
^Aboriginal welfare: initial conference of Commonwealth and state Aboriginal authorities held at Canberra, 21st to 23rd April, 1937. 1937.
^"Death of Mrs. A. J. Thynne". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 8 May 1937. p. 15. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
^MacCulloch, Jennifer, "Walker, Dame Eadith Campbell (1861–1937)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 October 2020