Select Committees, Royal Commissions and Boards of Inquiry by Year
1830s
1850s
- 1852 - Report from the Select Committee of the legislative Council on the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, together with the Proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and appendix (1852 - 1853)
- 1856 - Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Subject of Penal Establishments (1856 - 1857)
- 1857 - Select Committee upon the Lunatic Asylum (1857 - 1858)
- 1858 - Select Committee upon the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum (1858 - 1859)
- 1859 - Select Committee upon the [Yarra Bend] Lunatic Asylum (1859 - 1860)
1860s
- 1860 - Select Committee upon the [Yarra Bend] Lunatic Asylum; Progress Report, together with the minutes of evidence and appendices (1860 - 1861)
- 1861 - Select Committee on the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum (1861 - 1862)
- 1862 - Board appointed to enquire into the conduct of Doctors Bowie and Callan respecting the death of Charles Jenkins at the Lunatic Asylum (1862 - 1863)
- 1863 - Select Committee on the present state and management of lunatic asylums (1863 - 1864)
- 1863 - Committee appointed to enquire into the State of the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum (1863 - 1864)
- 1864 - Committee appointed to inquire into and report on the management , etc. of the Lunatic Asylum and Hospital (1864)
- 1867 - [Commission on] Lunatic Asylums (1867 - 1868)
- 1867 - Select Committee on the Lunatic Asylum, Kew (1867)
- 1868 - Select Committee on law relating to lunacy (1868 - 1869)
- 1869 - Select Committee appointed to inquire into the management of Lunatic Asylum (1869 - 1870)
- 1869 - Joint Select Committee on the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum (1869)
1870s
- 1876 - Select Committee on Lunatic Asylum, Paramatta (1876 - 1877)
- 1876 - Board appointed to enquire into matters relating to the Kew Lunatic Asylum (1876)
- 1877 - Royal Commission on the management of the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum and the Lunatic Reception Houses of the Colony (1877)
- 1877 - Select Committee on conveyance of lunatics from Sydney to Cooma (1877)
- 1878 - Board appointed to inquire into the quality of the food supplied to the Lunatic Asylum and Gaol at Parramatta, and to the nautical school ship "Vernon" (1878 - 1879)
1880s
- 1880 - Board of Inquiry [into] certain charges made against Doctor Patrick Smith, Surgeon-Superintendent of Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum by Mr Patrick O'Sullivan, M.L.A. and also into the general management of that institution (1880)
- 1883 - Select Committee of the Legislative Council appointed to inquire into the proposed transfer of the Lunatic Asylum at Freemantle from the Imperial to the Colonial Government (1883)
- 1883 - Royal Commission on the state of the Lunatic asylums in Tasmania (1883)
- 1884 - Committee appointed to report upon the Adelaide and Parkside Lunatic Asylums (1884)
- 1884 - Royal Commission on Asylums for the Insane and the Inebriate Reports [with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices] (1884 - 1887)
- 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 (1888)
1890s
- 1890 - Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to consider and report as to what is necessary to place the Asylum for the Insane on a satisfactory basis as to accommodation and maintenance (1890 - 1891)
- 1894 - Royal Commission… into the conduct and management of the licensed house for insane at Cook's River, near Sydney, known as "Bayview House", and particularly as regards the allegations made in the Legislative Assembly respecting the treatment… (1894 - 1895)
- 1895 - Board of Inquiry [into charges preferred by Mr D. P. O'Reilly in the Legislative Assembly reflecting on the conduct of Mrs Janet Gilmore, Matron of the Cottage Homes at Paramatta] (1895)
1900s
- 1900 - Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to inquire into the condition of the Freemantle and Whitby Falls Lunatic Asylums (1900)
- 1900 - Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to inquire into the condition of Perth Public Hospital (1900)
- 1905 - Royal Commission on the general hospitals, Hobart and Launceston, and the hospital for the insane, New Norfolk (1905)
- 1906 - Royal Commission upon the question of the treatment of inebriates (1906)
- 1909 - Royal Commission on the management of the Parkside Lunatic Asylum and treatment of criminal lunatics (1909)
1910s
- 1913 - [Commission on] the treatment of neglected and delinquent children in Great Britain, Europe, and America, with recommendations as to amendment of administration and law in New South Wales (1913)
- 1913 - Royal Commission on the administration of the mental hospitals and the reception house for the insane at Darlinghurst (1913)
- 1915 - Royal Commission appointed to inquire into and report upon all matters connected with the management of the Hospital for the Insane, Goodna, and the treatment of patients therein… (1915 - 1916)
- 1918 - Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Sate Children Act Amendment Bill (1918)
- 1919 - Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly on the Claremont Hospital for the Insane (1919)
- 1919 - Royal Commission on the Yatala Mental Hospital Site (1919)
1920s
- 1920 - Select Committee on case of William Maher, attendant at the Mental Hospital, Lidcombe (1920)
- 1921 - Royal Commission to inquire and report upon the arrest on a charge of insanity, committal to and detention in the Hospital for the Insane at Claremont of Georgina and Thomas Mable (1921 - 1922)
- 1921 - Royal Commission on State Children and Charities Department (1921 - 1922)
- 1922 - Select Committee of the Legislative Council on lunacy law and administration thereof (1922)
- 1923 - Royal Commission on lunacy law and administration (1923?)
- 1929 - Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly on the Mental Deficiency Bill (1929)
1930s
- 1937 - Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to inquire into the case of Frank Evans, deceased; (1937)
- 1937 - Royal Commission on Claremont Hospital for the Insane (custody of criminally insane persons) (1937)
- 1938 - Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Heathcote Mental Reception Home and the administration of mental hospitals generally (1938)
- 1939 - Committee appointed by the Government to inquire into delinquent and other children in the care of the State (1939)
1950s
1960s
- 1961 - Royal Commission on matters affecting Callan Park Mental Hospital (1961 - 1962)
- 1963 - Commission on child welfare legislation (1963 - 1964)
- 1965 - Committee of Enquiry into Public Hospitals of NSW (1965 - 1966)
- 1966 - Board of inquiry into the escape of patients from Lachlan Park Hospital. (1966)
1970s
- 1972 - Inquiry with respect to certain matters relating to Mr Robert Andrew Somerville (1972 - 1973)
- 1973 - Commission of Enquiry into health services in S.A. (1973)
- 1974 - Commission of inquiry into poverty in Australia (1974 - 1976)
- 1976 - Commission of Inquiry into Psychosurgery (1976 - 1978)
- 1979 - Board of inquiry [into the] Royal Derwent Hospital and Millbrook Rise Hospital (1979 - 1980)
