Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders / Senate Committees

Scope

The committee was established to complete an inquiry, commenced by another Senate committee, regarding the 'environmental conditions', and the preservation of sacred sites, of Indigenous Australians. The committee's report described the inquiry as a 'national examination of the diverse factors influencing the lives of Aboriginal and Islander peoples.'

Chairs

Gordon Sinclair Davidson

saLIB 23 Mar 1976 – 7 Apr 1976

Neville Thomas Bonner

qldLIB 7 Apr 1976 – 26 Aug 1976

Sequence

Social Environment

Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

1976

Find out more


	Tony Mulvihill, committee member, Interview with Ron Hurst, 1985, National Library of Australia, TRC 4900/77, session 29, 00:07:02-00:08:09. Full interview available at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-217984722/listen
	Committee timeline - First Indigenous person to chair a Senate committee

Tony Mulvihill, committee member, Interview with Ron Hurst, 1985, National Library of Australia, TRC 4900/77, session 29, 00:07:02-00:08:09.

Full interview available at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-217984722/listen

Committee timeline - First Indigenous person to chair a Senate committee

Reports

Date tabled	Title	Read report
26 Aug 1976	Environmental Conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Preservation of their Sacred Sites Parliamentary paper number 199/1976