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Scope

The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence inquired into Australia's relations with its neighbours in the Asia–Pacific region and aspects of the operations of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Australian Army.

Chairs

John Peter Sim
waLIB –

Arnold Joseph Drury
saALP –

Cyril Graham Primmer
vicALP –

John Peter Sim
waLIB –

Douglas Barr Scott
nswNCP; NPA from 19/10/1982 –

Gordon Douglas McIntosh
waALP –

Sequence

Foreign Affairs and Defence
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
1970
6.25
12.5
18.75
25
31.25
37.5
43.75
50
56.25
62.5
68.75
75
81.25
87.5
93.75
100
1987
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, 4 June 1987. L-R: Senators David Hamer, John Carrick, Gordon McIntosh, John Black and Terry Aulich. NAA: A6180, 9/6/87/10.

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, 4 June 1987. L-R: Senators David Hamer, John Carrick, Gordon McIntosh, John Black and Terry Aulich. NAA: A6180, 9/6/87/10.
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, 1973. L-R: Senator John Carrick, unknown secretariat staff, Senator Arnold Drury [Chair], unknown secretariat staff, Senators Peter Sim and Frank McManus. NAA: A6180, 31/7/73/11.

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, 1973. L-R: Senator John Carrick, unknown secretariat staff, Senator Arnold Drury [Chair], unknown secretariat staff, Senators Peter Sim and Frank McManus. NAA: A6180, 31/7/73/11.
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, June 1978. L-R: Senators Douglas Scott and Cyril Primmer, Tony Magi [Secretary], Senator Peter Sim [Chair], Mary-Louise Willheim [Research Officer], Senators Gordon McIntosh, John Knight and Kerry Sibraa.

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, June 1978. L-R: Senators Douglas Scott and Cyril Primmer, Tony Magi [Secretary], Senator Peter Sim [Chair], Mary-Louise Willheim [Research Officer], Senators Gordon McIntosh, John Knight and Kerry Sibraa.

Reports

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Japan Parliamentary paper number 2/1973 Document icon
The Australian Army Parliamentary paper number 280/1974 Document icon
Matters Referred to the Committee in the Preceding Sessions (Thailand; Recognition of China and the Status of Taiwan; and the Role of ANZUK) (Oral Report) Document icon
United Nations Involvement with Australia's Territories Parliamentary paper number 183/1975 Document icon
Australia and the Indian Ocean Region Parliamentary paper number 330/1976 Document icon
Australia and the Refugee Problem (details of the Government's Response included in 1982 report, see report no. 309) Parliamentary paper number 329/1976 Document icon
Australia and the South Pacific Parliamentary paper number 41/1978 Document icon
Australian Representation Overseas - The Department of Foreign Affairs Parliamentary paper number 2/1979 Document icon
The New International Economic Order - Implications for Australia Parliamentary paper number 1/1980 Document icon
Australia and ASEAN Parliamentary paper number 270/1980 Document icon
Indochinese Refugee Resettlement - Australia's Involvement Parliamentary paper number 364/1981 Document icon
The Human Rights and Conditions of the People of East Timor Parliamentary paper number 108/1983 Document icon
Regional Conflict and Superpower Rivalry in the Horn of Africa Parliamentary paper number 67/1984 Document icon
Australia's Defence Co-operation with its Neighbours in the Asian-Pacific Region Parliamentary paper number 316/1984 Document icon
Land Acquisition in New South Wales by the Australian Army (First Report) Parliamentary paper number 180/1986 Document icon