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Island to Islands:

Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories

Committee activities (inquiries and reports)

Island to Islands:

Communications with Australia's External Territories

March 1999

Canberra

© Commonwealth of Australia 1999

ISBN 0 642 47640 3

This report was tabled on March 22 1999. The report is available from this page in pdf format. To view or print these pdf documents, you will require the Acrobat PDF Reader, which can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe®.

Table of contents

Preface (PDF format)

Committee membership (PDF format)

Terms of reference (PDF format)

Abbreviations (PDF format)

Background (PDF format)

Conclusions and recommendations (PDF format)

CHAPTER ONE: EXTERNAL TERRITORIES AS A COMMUNICATIONS MICROCOSM (PDF format)

CHAPTER TWO: THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK (PDF format)

CHAPTER THREE: NORFOLK ISLAND (PDF format)

CHAPTER FOUR: CHRISTMAS ISLAND (PDF format)

CHAPTER FIVE: COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS (PDF format)

CHAPTER SIX: ANTARCTIC TERRITORIES (PDF format)

CHAPTER SEVEN: A SUMMARY OF ISSUES (PDF format)

Appendix 1 - LIST OF SUBMISSIONS (PDF format)

Appendix 2 - WITNESSES AT PUBLIC HEARINGS (PDF format)

Appendix 3 - LIST OF EXHIBITS (PDF format)

Appendix 4 - AUSTRALIA'S ANTARCTIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

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