Scope
The Standing Committee on Social Environment inquired into housing, transport, communications and environmental matters. When the committee terminated after the 1975 election, the unfinished reference on the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the preservation of their sacred sites was referred to a select committee.
Sequence
![Standing Committee on Social Environment, 1972. L-R: Senators Gordon Davidson and Tony Mulvihill, Bob Thomson [Secretary] and Bill Symington [Research Officer], Senators Condor Laucke [Chair], James Webster, Jack Little and Jim Keeffe.](/assets/committees/body-images/c016/c016-social-environment-standing-committee-1972-j2.jpg)
Standing Committee on Social Environment, 1972. L-R: Senators Gordon Davidson and Tony Mulvihill, Bob Thomson [Secretary] and Bill Symington [Research Officer], Senators Condor Laucke [Chair], James Webster, Jack Little and Jim Keeffe.
Reports
| Date tabled | Title | Read report |
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| The Content, Form and Presentation of the Information Section of Telephone Directories Parliamentary paper number 211/1971 | ||
| Canberra Sewage Effluent Parliamentary paper number 236/1971 | ||
| Petitions Seeking Co-operation and Financial Assistance for Crime Prevention Parliamentary paper number 30/1972 | ||
| The Clutha Development Project Parliamentary paper number 33/1972 | ||
| Environmental Conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Preservation of their Sacred Sites (Progress Report) Parliamentary paper number 150/1972 | ||
| Petition Relating to the Proposed Construction of a Post Office Tower on Black Mountain in the A.C.T. Parliamentary paper number 219/1972 | ||
| Petitions Relating to the Postmaster-General's Department (Interim Report) Parliamentary paper number 39/1973 | ||
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The Environmental Conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Preservation of their Sacred Sites (Second Progress Report)
Parliamentary paper number 59/1974
James Keeffe, committee member 1971-75, Interview with Pat Shaw, 1985, National Library of Australia, TRC 4900/43, session 6, 00:30:47-00:32:30. Full interview available at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-217732695/listen Gordon Sinclair Davidson, committee member 1971-75, Interview with Bruce Edwards, 1984-86, National Library of Australia, TRC 4900/41, session 80, 00:10:14-00:11:46. Full interview available at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-217655658/listen |
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| General Report (Relating to Several References) Parliamentary paper number 83/1975 |