List of South Australian Royal Commissions

This is a list of Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry appointed by the Government of South Australia.[1][2][3] Royal Commissions are currently held in South Australia under the terms of the Royal Commissions Act 1917. This list includes Royal Commissions that were conducted jointly with the Government of Australia. Note that this list excludes Select Committees.

Year(s) Royal Commission or Commission Commissioners
Province of South Australia
1859 Royal Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire into the loss of the "SS Admella"
1861 Royal commission on real property law
1864 Royal Commission on the Customs House
1864 Royal Commission appointed to inquire into and report on the management, etc. of the Lunatic Asylum and Hospital
1865 Royal Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to report on colonial defences
1865 Royal Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire into the state of the northern runs
1865-66 Royal Commission on the Port Harbour
1866 Royal Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire into the working of the Lands Titles Registration Office
1866 Royal Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire into the management of the Northern Territory expedition
1866 Commission of Inquiry into management of Police Force
1867 Royal Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire into the state of runs suffering from drought
1867 Royal Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire charges against Waterworks Engineer
1867-68 Royal Commission appointed by the Governor-in-Chief to inquire and report upon the diseases in cereals
1869 Royal Commission to inquire into and report upon the public accounts
1872-73 Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Intestacy, Real Property, and Testamentary Causes Acts
1873 Commission of Inquiry appointed to inquire into matters in dispute in connection with the Hope Valley aqueduct contract
1873-74 Royal Commission appointed to consider the whole matter of remuneration and classification of the Civil Service
1873-74 Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the whole question of the new Institute and Museum
1874 Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the alcoholic strength of South Australian wines
1874 Royal Commission appointed to inquire into and report upon the plans submitted in competition for the new Parliament houses and the new Institute and Museum, and the sites best suited for their erection
1874 Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the organisation and working of the Post Office Department
1874-75 Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the subject of railway construction
1875 Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the best means of providing agricultural and technical education
1875-76 Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the whole question of sanitation for the Province
1876 Royal Commission appointed to consider and report upon the whole question of the defences of the Province Colonel Warburton, Frederick Howard, Boyle Travers Finniss, William Barber, Benjamin D'Urban Musgrave, James Hesketh Briggs
1877-78 Royal Commission appointed to report on the principles and working of tribunals of commerce, etc., etc.
1878 Royal Commission appointed to report on the Parliament buildings site
1879 Royal Commission appointed to report on the liquor laws
1879-82 Royal Commission appointed to report on public finance
1879 Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Parliament buildings site
1879-82 Royal Commission appointed to report on the public works
1879 Royal Commission on sewage farm site
1880-81 Royal Commission appointed to report on wharves and jetties
1881 Royal Commission appointed to report on the alleged injuries by sparrows
1881-82 Royal Commission on the working of the Education Acts
1882 Royal Commission appointed to report on electoral districts
1883-85 Royal Commission appointed to report on the Destitute Act, 1881
1883-84 Royal Commission appointed to report upon the Adelaide and Parkside Lunatic Asylums
1883-84 Royal Commission on railways
1886-87 Royal Commission on Government Stores
1887 Royal Commission on Transcontinental railway
1887 Royal Commission on the utilisation of River Murray waters
1888 Royal Commission on the land laws of South Australia
1888-91 Civil Service Commission
1888-89 Royal Commission appointed to consider the desirability of establishing a State Bank and Royal Mint
1889 Barossa water commission
1889-90 Royal Commission on an Angaston railway
1889-90 Mining Commission
1890 Royal Commission on the utilisation of River Murray waters
1890 Queensland border railway commission
1890 Royal Commission on the Water Conservation Department
1890 Royal Commission on intercolonial free trade
1890-91 Royal Commission on landing and embarking European mails
1890-91 Royal Commission on the Port Augusta and Cockburn railway
1891 Queensland border railway commission
1891 Royal Commission on the question of the best route for the Blyth railway extension
1891 Pastoral lands commission
1891-92 Royal Commission on the valuations of pastoral improvements
1892 Royal Commission on the south-east drainage system
1892 Orroroo and Port Germein railway commission
1892 Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the question of the expediency of constructing a graving dock in South Australia at the public expense
1892 Shops and factories commission
1892 Royal Commission on main roads
1893 Royal Commission on stores
1893 Vermin-proof fencing commission
1894 Royal Commission on the utilisation of River Murray waters
1895 Royal Commission on the Northern Territory
1895 Royal Commission on the Adelaide Hospital
1896 Royal Commission on the Beetaloo waterworks
1896-97 Royal Commission on the Government wharves
1897 Royal Commission on the Bundaleer waterworks
1897-98 Pastoral lands commission
1897-98 Royal Commission on the aged poor
1898-99 South-eastern drainage commission
1899-1901 Public service commission
1899-1900 Royal Commission on Renmark and Murray River settlements
1900 Royal Commission on main roads
1900 Royal Commission on the Taxation Acts
State of South Australia
1901 Royal Commission on the Wine and Produce Depot
1902 Wine and produce commission in London
1902 Royal Commission on the question of the construction of a railway to Pinnaroo
1902 Interstate Royal Commission on the River Murray representing the States of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia
1903 Royal Commission on waterworks
1903-04 Royal commission on railways
1905-06 Royal Commission on the necessity for improved facilities for the trade of the south-east
1906 Royal Commission upon the question of the treatment of inebriates
1907 Royal Commission upon the charges against produce merchants
1907-08 Royal Commission on main roads
1908-09 Royal Commission on the question of the marketing of wheat
1908-09 Royal Commission on the Land Titles Office and General Registry of Deeds Office
1908-09 Royal Commission on the conviction of Myles Flynn
1909-12 Royal Commission on Eyre's Peninsula railways
1909 Royal Commission upon the necessity of a railway to Willunga
1909-12 Royal commission on the Murray lands railway
1909-11 Royal Commission upon the necessity for a railway through Kangaroo Island
1909 Royal Commission on the management of the Parkside Lunatic Asylum and treatment of criminal lunatics
1909-10 Royal Commission on the suggested railway deviation at Goolwa
1910-12 Royal Commission on northern railways
1910-11 Royal Commission on the proposed railway from Eudunda to Robertstown
1910-12 Royal Commission on narrow-gauge extension and break of gauge John Verran, Theodore Bruce, Alfred von Doussa, Edward Anstey, Percy Heggaton, and William Jamieson[4]
1910-14 Royal Commission on the Sedan railway
1910-12 Royal Commission on water supply
1910-12 Inter-state Royal Commission on border railways
1911-13 Royal Commission on the Adelaide University and higher education
1911 Royal Commission on wharves and water frontages
1911-12 Royal Commission on the shortage of labour in the clothing and boot trades
1912 Royal Commission on electoral registration
1912-16 Royal Commission on the Aborigines William Angus (Chairman)[5]
1914-15 Royal Commission on the metropolitan abattoirs
1913-15 Royal Commission on main roads
1913-17 Royal Commission on the municipalisation of gas and electric services
1915-16 Royal Commission on electoral matters
1916-18 Royal Commission on water supply
1916-19 Royal Commission on North Terrace reserves and railway centres
1916 Royal Commission on Port Adelaide road contracts
1917-18 Royal Commission on government land purchases
1917-18 Royal Commission on Hannaford's quarry
1917-21 Royal Commission on the wheat scheme and rural industries
1918 Royal Commission on the acquisition and disposal of wheat and material in connection with the South Australian wheat scheme
1918 Railway inquiry commission
1918-20 Second Royal Commission on the acquisition and disposal of wheat and material in connection with the South Australian wheat scheme
1919 Royal Commission on the Yatala Mental Hospital site
1919-20 Royal Commission on Loxton
1919-20 Royal Commission on the Port Adelaide coal wharf
1921-22 Royal Commission on the Public Service of South Australia
1923-27 Royal Commission on law reform
1923-25 Royal Commission on south-eastern drainage
1923-25 Irrigation Royal Commission under section 22 of Irrigation Act, 1922
1923-25 Royal Commission on Eyre Peninsula transport charges and facilities
1925 Royal Commission on plumbism
1925-26 Royal Commission on rural settlement
1925 Royal Commission on Port Pirie Police
1925 Royal Commission on the thousand homes contract
1925 Second Royal Commission on Port Pirie Police
1926-27 Royal Commission on manufacturing and secondary industries
1926-28 Royal Commission on traffic control
1926 Royal Commission on release of prisoners
1926-27 Royal Commission on the pastoral industry
1926-27 Second Royal Commission on allegations of bribery against police officers
1927 Royal Commission on electoral districts
1928 Royal Commission on electoral districts
1930-33 Local government commission appointed under the Local Government Areas Re-arrangement Act, 1929
1932-33 Royal Commission on betting
1933 Royal Commission on dairy industry prices
1934-35 Royal Commission on the fishing industry
1935 Royal Commission on matters concerning the promotion and operations of certain companies in South Australia
1936 Royal Commission on afforestation
1936 Royal Commission on lotteries
1936-37 Inquiry commission by the South Australian Government into the system of management of libraries maintained or assisted by the State
1937-38 Royal Commission on transport Geoffrey Reed (Lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide), John Wainwright, William Fowler
1937-38 Royal Commission on betting laws and practice Harold Piper, Kenneth Sanderson, Sidney Powell
1945 Royal Commission on the Adelaide Electric Supply Company Geoffrey Reed (Supreme Court Justice), Professor Arthur Lang Campbell, John William Wainwright
1947-51 Royal Commission on state transport services Herbert Paine (Local court judge and special magistrate), William Bishop, Edmund Daly (J.P.), Albert Thompson, Kenneth Wills (replaced by) Samuel Fisk
1956-57 Royal Commission on local government; Report on creation of an additional district council district in the Upper South-East and adjustment of existing district council districts together with maps Lawrence Johnston (Stipendiary Magistrate)
1959 Royal Commission in regard to Rupert Max Stuart Sir J. Mellis Napier (Chairman),[6] Geoffrey ReedD(Supreme Court Justice),. Bruce Ross
1965-66 Royal Commission into the grape growing industry G. H. P. Jeffery (Chairman and Auditor General)
1966-67 Royal Commission into the law relating to the sale, supply and consumption of intoxicating liquors and other matters Keith Sangster (Her Majesty’s Counsel)
1967 Royal Commission into State Transport Services Joseph Nelligan (Queen's Counsel), Thomas Shanahan, George Jeffery (Auditor General)
1967 Royal Commission into John Douglas Murrie, Headmaster of Larrakeyah Primary School George Walters (Supreme Court Justice)
1971-72 Royal Commission into September Moratorium Demonstrations Charles Bright (Supreme Court Justice)
1973-75 Royal Commission into Local Government Areas Gerald Ward[7] (Chairman), Donald Pitt, Keith Hockrdige
1974-75 Royal Commission into Monarto land transactions Gerald Ward
1974-75 Royal Commission into suspension of a high school student Gordan Combe (Ombudsman)
1975 Royal Commission into allegations made by prisoners at Yatala Labour Prison Laurence Johnston (Judge)
1977 Royal Commission into Juvenile Courts Act and other associated matters R. F. Mohr (Supreme Court Justice)
1977 Royal Commission into law relating to shop trading hours and ancillary matters William Lean (Industrial Commissioner)[8]
1978 Royal Commission into law relating to the sale by retail of petroleum products William Lean (Industrial Commissioner)[9]
1978 Royal Commission into dismissal of Harold Hubert Salisbury Roma Mitchell
1979 Royal Commission into the non-medical use of drugs Ronald Sackville (Chairman, Dean of UNSW Law Faculty), Earle Hackett, Richard Nies[10]
1979 Royal Commission into the floodlighting of Football Park at West Lakes Peter Allan[11] (Judge of the Industrial Court)
1981-82 Royal Commission on allegations in relation to prisons under the charge, care and direction of the Director of the Department of Correctional Services and certain related matters Gresley Clarkson[12] (Queen's Counsel)
1983-84 Splatt Royal Commission Judge Carl Shannon[13] (LL.B (Hons) QC – former Supreme Court Judge in NSW.)
1991-93 Royal Commission into the State Bank of South Australia Samuel Jacobs QC[14] (replaced by) John Mansfield
1995 Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission Former District Court Judge, Iris Stevens,[15] former Supreme Court Justice
2004-08 Commission of Inquiry into Children in State Care Ted Mullighan[16] (Supreme Court Justice)
2004-08 Commission of Inquiry into Children on the APY Lands Ted Mullighan[17] (Supreme Court Justice)
2005 Kapunda Road Royal Commission Greg James QC
2012-13 Royal Commission - Report of Independent Education Bruce Debelle (Supreme Court Justice)
2014-16 Child Protection Systems Royal Commission[18] Margaret Nyland [19] (former Supreme Court Justice)
2015-16 Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission[20] Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce[21]

Other inquiries

Year(s) Inquiry Headed by
1865 Board of Inquiry on the late railway accident
1866 Board of Inquiry appointed to investigate a charge of tampering with emigration certificates
1869 Stockade inquiry board
1870 Board appointed to inquire into the cause of deficiencies in certain bonded stores, and conduct of customs officers in connection therewith
1872 Committee appointed to consider the Assembly chamber arrangement
1872 Board of inquiry into the management of the Metropolitan Police Force
1873 Assembly chamber committee
1875 Committee of Inquiry appointed to inquire into the general management of the Adelaide Hospital by the paid officers of the institution
1878 Committee on the Parliament buildings site
1878 Committee of the Legislative Council on Parliament buildings site
1879 Board of advice on outer harbor accommodation
1879 Board appointed to inquire into the case of Police v. Plumridge
1880 Board of Inquiry to investigate certain charges made against Mr. J. Boothby, Under Secretary
1880 Board of Inquiry appointed to investigate charges laid against Mr. Josiah Boothby, C.M.G. Under Secretary and Government Statist under Civil Service Act, no 3 of 1874
1881 Privilege committee on the re-election of David Murray, Esq.
1883 Inquiry into accident on Nairne railway at Blackwood
1884-85 Thow inquiry board, appointed to inquire into certain charges against Mr. Wm. Thow, the Locomotive Engineer of the S.A. Railways;
1885 Patterson inquiry board appointed to inquire into certain charges against Mr. R.C. Patterson, Deputy Engineer-in-Chief of the S.A. Railways
1886 Board of Inquiry into Islington railway accident
1886 Board of Inquiry into cause of accident on Southern railway line on Easter Monday, 26 April 1886
1886-88 Board appointed by the Government to inquire into and report upon the best means of developing a general system of technical, including agricultural, education in the Province
1888 (Public Service commission on) A.L. Thurpp's (sic) claim re wattle seed
1888 Board appointed by the Chief Secretary to inquire into certain allegations in regard to the treatment in the Adelaide and Parkside Asylums of a pauper lunatic named George Willoughby
1890 (Public Service commission on) A.L. Thurpp's (sic) claim re wattle seed
1890 Board appointed by the Government to enquire into and report upon the best means of lighting by electricity the Houses of Parliament and other public buildings adjoining, and the estimated cost compared with the cost of the present system of lighting with gas
1890 South Australian railway brakes board
1892 Board appointed to inquire whether or not any public loss has been occasioned or permitted in connection with the pastoral valuations by the misconduct, negligence, incapacity, or error of Mr. S.G. Huebbe
1892 Board appointed to inquire into the question of the establishment of a truant school
1894 Committee appointed to confer with any committee of the L.C. on the necessity for better accommodation for the Council
1898 Committee appointed by the LC on the title of "honourable" in reference to members of the LC
1899-1900 Board appointed to inquire into charges against detective police
1902-03 Adelaide water supply inquiry board
1903 Board of Inquiry re Dr. Ramsay Smith
1911 Committee of Inquiry into alleged irregularities in connection with the Willunga railway polls
1916 Nomenclature committee on enemy place names
1918 Board of Inquiry into charge against the Surveyor-General Mr. N.W. Pethick
1922 Committee appointed to inquire into dairy questions on River Murray reclaimed swamp areas
1927 Special Committee on state finance
1927 (Committee on) financial effect of Federation on South Australia
1930-31 Committee of Enquiry into education
1931 Special committee upon soldier settlement and irrigation
1931 Agricultural settlement committee
1931-32 Committee of Enquiry into the Adelaide Electric Supply Co. Ltd.
1932-33 Committee to investigate the question of debt adjustment in respect of the agricultural and pastoral industries
1934 Investigation committee on the Advances for Homes Acts
1934 Committee of Inquiry on the effect of the legislation of the Commonwealth and the eastern states controlling butter and cheese, and a Commonwealth price stabilisation scheme for South Australia, or a state controlled scheme
1935-36 Honorary committee appointed by the Government to report upon the Road Traffic Act, 1934 and to make recommendations relating to traffic laws
1935 Honorary committee on subordinate legislation
1937 Committee on the operation of the South Australian Trading Stamp Act
1937 The Committee on the proposed jetty at Port Victoria
1937 Honorary committee on the manufacture and improvements in quality of South Australian butter
1937-38 State traffic committee
1937-38 Soil conservation committee
1937 Building Act inquiry committee
1938 Special committee appointed to inquire into the present ration scale and to advise the Government as to any desirable alterations or additions to the scale
1938-39 Committee appointed by the Government to inquire into delinquent and other children in the care of the State
1939-40 State traffic committee on main road lighting
1940 Building Act inquiry committee
1942-49 Education inquiry committee appointed by the Government of South Australia
1943 Committee of inquiry into electricity supply for South Australia
1943-44 Country freezing works committee A. W. Pope (chairman and general manager of the Government Produce Department), A. S. Kidman, W. Robinson[22]
1944-45 Special committee of milk-in-schools inquiry Dr A. Southwood (chairman), Dr Helen Mayo, Professor M. L. Mitchell[23]
1945-46 South Australian regional planning committee [24]
1946-47 Pastoral and marginal agricultural areas inquiry committee Charles Melville (Chairman)[25]
1946 Committee of Inquiry for consolidating the health services of the State Mr. Shannon, Mr. Duncan MP, Dr. A. R. Southwood (chairman of the Central Board of Health), Dr. H. M. Jay (representing the British Medical Association), and Dr. E. Sandford Morgan (lay practitioner)[26]

References

  1. ↑ Zalums, Elmar (1975). A Bibliography of South Australian Royal Commissions, Select Committees of Parliament, and Boards of Inquiry, 1857 - 1970. Bedford Park, South Australia: The Flinders University of South Australia. ISBN 0-9598530-0-6.
  2. ↑ Index to Papers Laid Before Parliament and Petitions Presented to Both Houses, 1962-1975. 1977.
  3. ↑ Index to Papers Laid Before Parliament and Petitions Presented to Both Houses, From 1 July to 30 June 1982. 1983.
  4. ↑ "BREAK-OF-GAUGE COMMISSION.". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889-1931). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 21 September 1910. p. 10. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  5. ↑ "Final report of the ... together with minutes of evidence and appendices : [Chairman : W. Angus]. - Version details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  6. ↑ "STUART'S SENTENCE TO BE REDUCED TO IMPRISONMENT". The Canberra Times. 1959-10-06. p. 1. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  7. ↑ "First report of the Royal Commission into Local Government Areas (appointed by Commission dated 12th April, 1973). - Version details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-09-16.
  8. ↑ "Report of the Royal Commission into the Law Relating to Shop Trading Hours and Ancillary Matters - Details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
  9. ↑ "Report of the Royal Commission into the law relating to shop trading hours and ancillary matters : report part 2, relating to the sale by retail of petroleum products. - Version details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
  10. ↑ "Final report, April 1979 / Royal Commission into the Non-medical Use of Drugs, South Australia - Details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  11. ↑ "Report of the Royal Commission into the Floodlighting of Football Park at West Lakes. - Version details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  12. ↑ "Report of the Royal Commission on Allegations in Relation to Prisons under the Charge, Care and Direction of the Director of the Department of Correctional Services and Certain Related Matters. - Version details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  13. ↑ "Issue of Splatt report sought". The Canberra Times. 1983-01-25. p. 8. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  14. ↑ "First report / presented by the Honourable S.J. Jacobs - Details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  15. ↑ "Report of the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Royal Commission / presented by Iris E. Stevens. - Version details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  16. ↑ "CHILDREN IN STATE CARE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND DEATH FROM CRIMINAL CONDUCT" (PDF).
  17. ↑ "CHILDREN ON ANANGU PITJANTJATJARA YANKUNYTJATJARA (APY) LANDS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY A REPORT INTO SEXUAL ABUSE" (PDF).
  18. ↑ "Child Protection Systems Royal Commission | Attorney-General's Department". www.agd.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
  19. ↑ "Royal Commissioner". Retrieved 2015-07-22.
  20. ↑ "Nuclear issues to be examined by SA royal commission, Premier Jay Weatherill announces". http://www.abc.net.au/. ABC. 2015-02-09. Retrieved 2015-05-02. External link in |website= (help)
  21. ↑ "Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission". http://nuclearrc.sa.gov.au/. Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission. Retrieved 2015-05-02. External link in |website= (help)
  22. ↑ "COUNTRY FREEZING WORKS. Committee Hands in Report". The Narracoorte Herald. 1939-06-27. p. 2. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
  23. ↑ "Report Urges Milk For Schoolchildren". News. 1945-10-02. p. 3. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
  24. ↑ "Report on regional boundaries, 1946 / South Australian Regional Planning Committee. - Version details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
  25. ↑ "Report of the Pastoral and Marginal Agricultural Areas Inquiry Committee : together with graohs and appendices. - Version details - Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
  26. ↑ "STATE HEALTH SERVICES Special Committee To Enquire". The Advertiser. 1945-12-13. p. 7. Retrieved 2015-09-16.

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