The Aboriginal Land Rights Commission ran from 1973 to 1974 and had the purpose of inquiring into appropriate ways to recognise Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory. Gough Whitlam had appointed Justice Edward Woodward to run the Commission, which became known as the 'Woodward Royal Commission'. This is the first time digitised versions of...

This is the first time a digitised version of this review on school education, known as the ‘Karmel Report’, has been made available. Tabled in 1973, the report greatly influenced how schools in Australia were funded. On 12 December 1972 the newly elected Whitlam government appointed an Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission. Chaired...

This is the final report by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board on recommendations to the Postmaster-General on applications for a licence for a commercial television station in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

This document is the final report of the Royal Commission on Television.

This 1927 Royal Commission report investigated the radio broadcasting system as it existed and concluded that direct government control over broadcasting was inadvisable. At the same time, the Commission was convinced that the system would benefit from co-operation between Class A and Class B stations and from an overarching supervision by the Postmaster-General’s Department.