This review was Australia's first national consultation with people with disability, their families and service providers. Overview For much of Australia's history there was no national program of disability service provision. This changed with the election of the Whitlam government, which passed the Handicapped Program Assistance Act 1974, funding non-government organisations to provide housing or...

The Fraser government commissioned this inquiry in 1979, as the national broadcaster approached its 50th anniversary. The inquiry was chaired by Alex Dix and came to be known as "the Dix inquiry". The inquiry found that:

Tabled in 1977, this was the first comprehensive government report on drugs in Australia. In the 1960s illicit drug use in Australia was raplidly increasing, leading to stricter legal penalties. By the 1970s it became clear that the legal penalties were having a limited impact. At this time the health impacts of alcohol and tobbaco...

This the final report of a 1974-1976 Royal Commission which examined how to reshape government administration in Australia.

This 1975 report, commonly known as the 'Pigott Report', helped spur the creation of the National Museum of Australia in 1980 with the passing of the National Museum of Australia Act. There had been plans to establish a national museum since Federation, but with world wars, depression, and limited political interest, little action had been...