* 1983 – Stephen James King, Australian actor

* 1983 – Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter and actress

* 1983 – Tammin Sursok, Australian actress and singer

* 1983 – Scott McDonald, Australian footballer

* 1983 – Ashley Hansen, Australian rules footballer

* 1983 – Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor

Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

The series was originally aired on BBC1 from 15 June 1983 to 20 July 1983, and was a joint production with the Australian Seven Network.

* 1983 – Cooper Cronk, Australian rugby player

* 1983 – Jennifer Hawkins, Australian beauty pageant contestant

* 1983 – Rocky Elsom, Australian rugby player

* 1983 – Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer

* 1983 – Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver

* 1983 – Ryan Rowland-Smith, Australian baseball player

* 1983 – Matthew Egan, Australian rules footballer

* 1983 – Billy Slater, Australian rugby player

* 1983 – Cameron Smith, Australian rugby player

* 1983 – Ted Richards, Australian rules footballer

* 1983 – Justin Davies, Australian footballer

* 1983 – Lee Harding, Australian singer

* 1983 – Rick Kelly, Australian racing driver

* 1983 – Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model

* 1890 – Frank Forde, Australian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1983 )

The Hawke / Keating governments of 1983 – 1996 pursued economic policies and restructuring such as floating the Australian dollar in 1983, reducing tariffs on imports, taxation reforms, moving from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining, privatisation of publicly-owned companies such as Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank, and deregulation of the banking system.

* Bodnar, John E., Anthracite People: Families, Unions, and Work, 1900-1940, Harrisburg: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1983.

The Place Stanislas named after the king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and duke of Lorraine Stanisław Leszczyński, Place de la Carrière, and Place d ' Alliance were added on the World Heritage Sites list by the UNESCO in 1983.

* Robert Montgomery ( boxer ) ( born 1983 ), Canadian super heavyweight boxer who represented Canada at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

* 1983 3rd place as a Flyweight at Commonwealth Titles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

In 1983, he gained a doctorate of juridical science ( JSD ) at Columbia University, and his thesis on the executive power of the Commonwealth of Australia became the core of Parliament, the Executive and the Governor-General, which was published by Melbourne University Press in 1983, and which is still regarded as the leading text on the subject.

Australia has a Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, which was set up by the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983 and started operations in 1984.

The nearby Brookwood ( Russia ) Memorial was erected in 1983 and commemorates forces of the British Commonwealth who died in Russia in World War I and World War II.

Under the nominally centre-left Australian Labor Party from 1983 to 1996, the Bob Hawke and Paul Keating governments pursued many economic policies associated with economic rationalism, such as floating the Australian Dollar in 1983, reductions in trade tariffs, taxation reforms, changing from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining, heavy restrictions on union activities including on strike action and pattern bargaining, the privatisation of government run services and enterprises such as Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank, and wholesale deregulation of the banking system.

In statutes passed before 1 January 1983, however, references to " British subjects " continue to be read as if they referred to " Commonwealth citizens ".

In 1982, at the time of the Falklands War, he was transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, being promoted to Minister of State at the Foreign Office in 1983.

John Maxwell ( JM ) Coetzee was also first published in the 1970s, and became internationally recognised in 1983 with his Booker Prize winning novel Life & Times of Michael K. His 1999 novel Disgrace won him his second Booker Prize as well as the 2000 Commonwealth Writers ' Prize.

The Right is most famous for its support of Third Way policies over Labor's traditional social democratic / democratic socialist policies, such as the economic rationalist policies of the Hawke and Keating governments, like floating the Australian Dollar in 1983, reductions in trade tariffs, taxation reforms, changing from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining, the privatisation of Qantas and Commonwealth Bank, and deregulating the banking system.

* Alamgir Hashmi, Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-definition of a Popular / Counter Culture, 1983.

In 1983, it acquired its hometown rival Bank of the Commonwealth.

Feathers were also ruffled in 1983 over the lack of consultation before the US invasion of the Commonwealth island of Grenada.

* David Price ( boxer ) ( born 1983 ), British Commonwealth superheavy champ

He also served on the Expert Group appointed by the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, London in 1982 He was appointed Secretary-General of the Seventh Non-aligned summit in New Delhi held in 1983 and Chief Coordinator of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting ( CHOGM ) in New Delhi in the same year.

* Commonwealth Stadium hosted the 1983 Summer Universiade.

Following the end of restriction of buying new buses from countries of Commonwealth of Nations, KMB introduced one German-built Mercedes-Benz O305 double-decker in 1983.