House Standing Committee on Expenditure
Inquiry into lightstations
Report
On 8 December 1983, the House Standing Committee on Expenditure tabled its report on the inquiry into lightstations entitled Lighthouses: Do we keep the keepers?
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This report is comprised of preliminary pages, 11 chapters and 5 appendices.
Lighthouses: Do we keep the keepers?
Part A: Preliminary pages up to Appendix 5 (end of report) (PDF 8483KB)
Committee Membership, Contents, Foreword, Findings and List of Recommendations
Ch1: Introduction
Ch2: Background
Ch3: Development of unmanning
Ch4: Approach to issues
Ch5: Automation and unmanning
Ch6: The need for continued manning
Ch7: Levels for continued manning
Ch8: Payment for continued manning
Ch9: Policy and the decision-making mechanism
Ch10: Other issues
Ch11: Conclusions
Appendix 1: Lightstations used by Bureau of Meteorology for making meteorological observations
Appendix 2: Details of lightstations on the register of the national estate
Appendix 3: Lightstations where manned presence required to protect cultural environment
Appendix 4: Categorisation of the lightstations in terms of need for continued manning
Appendix 5: Witnesses, exhibits, evidence and submissions
Part B: Profiles of Manned Lightstations and Attachments (PDF 9822KB)
Introduction
New South Wales
Victoria
Queensland
South Australia
Western Australia
Tasmania
| Attachment 1 |
(a) |
Indicative costs associated with manned lightstations |
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(b) |
Indicative listing of lightstation unmanning ranked according to financial savings |
| Attachment 2 |
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Map: location of manned lightstations as at July 1983 |
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