Continuing from yesterday’s introduction, today I offer up the second chapter of Jones’ Final Report and Recommendations. In this chapter, Jones and Research Director Donald Paterson offer up a brief statistical snapshot of the Study area and an analysis of the fifty-six submissions received during the hearings.
Interestingly, one of the submissions received recommended the creation of a federal capital territory and one recommended that the Study area be made into an eleventh province. Perhaps as an indicator of the low-level of satisfaction for how things had been going in the postwar era, only 8/56 submissions favoured no change to governance in the region at all.
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