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.
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![Select Committee on the Development of Canberrra, 27 October 1955. L-R: Senators John Ryan, Ian Wood, Clive Hannaford, John McCallum [Chair], Dorothy Tangney, Seddon Vincent and Archie Benn.](/assets/committees/body-images/c133/c133-development-of-canberra-select-committee-27-october-1955-j1.jpg)
Select Committee on the Development of Canberrra, 27 October 1955. L-R: Senators John Ryan, Ian Wood, Clive Hannaford, John McCallum [Chair], Dorothy Tangney, Seddon Vincent and Archie Benn.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |