The first-seeds Jack Crawford and Harry Hopman successfully defended their title by defeating Tim Fitchett and Jack Hawkes 8–6, 6–1, 2–6, 6–3 in the final, to win the men's doubles tennis title at the 1930 Australian Championships.

[1][2][3][4][5] In order to eliminate byes the council of L.T.A.A.

decided that in case of events for which there were more than the number of entries acceptable, a preliminary elimination tournament should be played.

[7] Eliminating matches[8] were played on Saturday, 18 January: Source for seedings