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Scope

This committee provided a comprehensive report on the development of Canberra, beginning with a brief history of the selection of the site as a seat of the Commonwealth government, through to determining whether Canberra's level of development in the 1950s was adequate and in accordance with the original plan by Walter Burley Griffin.

Chairs

John Archibald McCallum

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Sequence

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Ian Wood, committee member 1954-55, Interview with Ron Hurst on his dissenting report, National Library of Australia, TRC 4900/84, session 3, 00:55:43–00:57:24.

Full interview available at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-218054564/listen.

Ian Wood, committee member 1954-55, Interview with Ron Hurst on ministerial response to the report, National Library of Australia, TRC 4900/84, session 4, 00:00:35–00:01:54.

Full interview available at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-218054564/listen.

Roy Bullock, committee secretary, Interview with Eric Sparke, 1984, National Library of Australia, TRC 1593, session 2, 00:00:04-00:04:56.

Full interview available at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-215352759/listen.

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Committee timeline – Select Committee on the Development of Canberra

Reports

Date tabledTitleRead report
ReportParliamentary paper number S2/1955
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