A000389 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2000-04-27 human Ailie Smith updated 2025-12-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000389b.htm CA 9 corporateBody Postmaster-General's Department Commonwealth of Australia AACR2 1 January 1901 22 December 1975 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Location Melbourne, Victoria Postal Services Telecommunications Advisory or Regulatory Body In 1901, the time of Australia's Federation, the Postmaster-General's Department was created to control all postal and telecommunication services within Australia. In 1975 the Department's functions were divided, with Australian Telecommunications Commission, trading as Telecom Australia, established to take over telecommunications and Australia Post created to take over postal services. Lawson, Robert (1880 - 1949)

Chief Engineer 1936 - 1945; Deputy-Director of Posts and Telegraphs, Victoria 1933 - 1936; State Engineer (later Superintending Engineer), New South Wales 1924 - 1933; State Engineer, Victoria 1918 - 1924; State Engineer (later Chief Electrical Engineer), South Australia 1916 - 1918; Engineer, Chief Electrical Engineer's Office, Melbourne 1914 - 1916.

 Banks, Edgar Roger (Roger) (1930 - 2018)

Assistant Director-General, Telephone Exchange Equipment 1974-75; Assistant Director General, Switching and Facilities Planning c1960-1972.

 Seyler, Albert Jakob (1913 - 1977)

Assistant Director General, Research Laboratories, 1964 - 1975

 Crawford, John Murray (1871 - 1943)

Chief Engineer c1927 - 1936;

 Turnbull, Ron W.

Chairman, Automatic Network and Switching Objectives (ANSO) Committee 1957 - ?1960

 CSIR/O Division of Forest Products (mark I), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1928 - 1971) Balsillie, John Graeme (1885 - 1924) 1911 1915

John Balsillie was an Engineer for radiotelegraphy with the Australian Postmaster-General's Department from 1911 - 1915.

 Australian Post Office (APO) (? - 1975) Research Laboratories, Postmaster-General's Department Overseas Telecommunications Commission (1946 - 1992) Australian Telecommunications Commission, Commonwealth of Australia (1975 - 1989) Australia Post, Commonwealth of Australia (1975 - )

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 'Postmaster-General's Department', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Postmaster-General's Department Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Surprise and Enterprise: Fifty Years of Science for Australia: CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) McKay, Andrew Surprise and Enterprise: Fifty Years of Science for Australia: CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) Melbourne CSIRO 1976 Resource Section: Primary description of agency CA 9; Postmaster-General's Department, Central Administration. Registration of entity: 27 June 1983 Primary description of agency CA 9; Postmaster-General's Department, Central Administration. Registration of entity: 27 June 1983 National Archives of Australia 2000 RecordSearch Journal Article: Seas no longer divide Moorhead, Simon Seas no longer divide 2021 Journal of telecommunications and the digital economy 9 1 50-72 Journal Article: Radio communication by artificial satellites Moorhead, Simon Radio communication by artificial satellites 2015 Australian journal of telecommunications and the digital economy 3 3 72-84