24 gifts, from $50 to $169.99, every price read off an Australian retailer’s page and checked since 30 October 2026. And twelve we tell you to skip.
From 11 Australian retailers · 4 arrive by email today · every price checked since 30 October 2026
24 first Father’s Day gift ideas
One idea from each kind of dad rather than a run of one category, and nothing under $50, because this is the occasion where a considered gift beats a fast one. Alcohol is left off, on the assumption that a household with a newborn in it has other priorities.
The dad in his thirties or forties who owns a PlayStation 5 and still knows the controls for a 900. Check the console first: this copy is PS5 only. Sealed games cannot be returned for a change of mind, so be sure he does not already own it.
The dad who drinks whisky at home and still pours it out of the bottle. Not the collector who wants the label on show, and not the household where it would sit unused.
The Liverpool supporter, at any age. Adidas cut this in a slim fit, so size up if Dad likes his shirts loose. Not for the supporter who only wears the current season’s kit to the ground.
The dad who surfs a beachie before work and has been running the same sun-perished leash for two summers because replacing it never quite reaches the top of the list
The dad who is past drinking whisky with ice and has started reading the back of the bottle. Less suited to the bourbon-and-coke drinker, where a tumbler is the right glass.
A first Father’s Day is a milestone rather than a resupply, and it is the one occasion on this site where the gift is allowed to be about the moment. That is also the trap: novelty parenting merchandise dates within a year, photographs badly, and is the first thing out of the house when they move.
The better answer is something he would have wanted anyway, bought a bit above what you would normally spend, so that the milestone is marked by the quality rather than by the word Dad printed on it. If it still gets used in five years, the day is remembered properly.
Practically, it falls on the first Sunday in September, well clear of the Christmas freight crush, so delivery is forgiving. That means fit matters more than speed here, which is the opposite of the Christmas page.
Nobody plans a gift in advance because nobody remembers the date until it is too late to post anything. We will email you before Father’s Day and before Christmas, with the shortlist already narrowed and the delivery window still open.
