Your browser, Internet Explorer, is unsupported and this site may not function correctly.

Open this page in Microsoft Edge

This website contains names and images of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Navigate Senate Committees

Scope

The Standing Committee on Social Welfare conducted landmark inquiries into drug and alcohol issues and the administration of government social services programs. It also inquired into social matters including a national superannuation scheme, children in institutional care, homeless youth and income support for the retired and aged.

Chairs

Peter Erne Baume

nswLIB

Mary Shirley Walters

tasLIB

Ronald Charles Elstob

saALP

Find out more

Document icon

Committee timeline – Drug problems in Australia

Document icon

Committee timeline – Through a glass, darkly: evaluation in Australian health and welfare services

Reports

Date tabledTitleRead report
Outstanding References from the former Senate Standing Committee on Health and WelfareParliamentary paper number 127/1976
Document icon
The Annual Report 1974-75 of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories CommissionParliamentary paper number 356/1976
Document icon
Drug Problems in Australia - An Intoxicated Society?Parliamentary paper number 228/1977

Thomas Joseph Tehan, committee member 1976-78, Interview with Dr Tony Hannan (part 1 of 2), 1988, National Library of Australia, TRC 4900/56, session 5, 00:04:14-00:08:30.

Full interview available at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-217809242/listen.

Thomas Joseph Tehan, committee member 1976-78, Interview with Dr Tony Hannan (part 2 of 2), 1988, National Library of Australia, TRC 4900/56, session 5, 00:08:30-00:13:31.

Full interview available at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-217809242/listen.

Document icon
The Introduction of a National Superannuation SchemeParliamentary paper number 6/1978
Document icon
Annual Reports Referred to the CommitteeParliamentary paper number 3/1978
Document icon
Ethics in Wine PromotionParliamentary paper number 328/1978
Document icon
Evaluation in Australian Health and Welfare Services: Through a Glass, Darkly (Volume 1)Parliamentary paper number 71/1979
Document icon
Evaluation in Australian Health and Welfare Services: Through a Glass, Darkly (Volume 2 - papers commissioned by the Committee)Parliamentary paper number 160/1979
Document icon
Annual Reports Referred to the CommitteeParliamentary paper number 284/1979
Document icon
Annual Reports Referred to the CommitteeParliamentary paper number 68/1980
Document icon
Another Side to the Drug Debate...A Medicated Society?Parliamentary paper number 98/1981
Document icon
Homeless YouthParliamentary paper number 231/1982
Document icon
Income Support for the Retired and the Aged (Progress Report)Parliamentary paper number 319/1984
Document icon
Children in Institutional and Other Forms of Care - A National PerspectiveParliamentary paper number 324/1985
Document icon