Department of Markets and Transport
10 December 1928 – 21 April 1930
Previously Department of Markets (1928).
Department combining the overseas marketing of primary produce and export regulation with Commonwealth transport functions, including navigation and lighthouses.
Names over time
- Department of Markets and Migration1925–1928
- Department of Markets1928
- Department of Markets and Transport1928–1930
How it came into existence
Formed on 10 December 1928 by the Bruce–Page government when the Department of Markets was given transport functions. Whether navigation, shipping and lighthouses came across from the Department of Trade and Customs at this time, rather than in 1930, is not confirmed.
- Overseas marketing of primary produce
- Export inspection
- Navigation and shipping
- Lighthouses
Unconfirmed: these functions may instead have left Trade and Customs only when the Department of Transport was created in 1930.
How it ended
Split on 21 April 1930 by the Scullin government into a new Department of Markets and a Department of Transport.
- Overseas marketing of primary produce
- Export inspection
- Produce export control boards
- Navigation and shipping
- Lighthouses
- Transport co-ordination
Main functions
- Overseas marketing of primary produce
- Export inspection and produce export control boards
- Advances to the states for wire netting
- Navigation and shipping
- Lighthouses
- Transport co-ordination
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