Postal and Telecommunications Department

Postal and Telecommunications Department
Department overview
Formed	22 December 1975
Preceding Department	Postmaster-General's Department; Department of the Media – for electronic media;
Dissolved	3 November 1980
Superseding agency	Department of Transport and Communications;
Jurisdiction	Commonwealth of Australia
Department executives	Fred Green, Secretary (1975–1979); Bob Lansdown, Secretary (1979–1980);

The Postal and Telecommunications Department was an Australian government department, established in 1975 to take over the residual functions of the Postmaster-General's Department after its postal and telecommunications functions were split into the Australian Postal Commission (trading as Australia Post) and the Australian Telecommunications Commission (trading as Telecom, and which later became Telstra) respectively. The Department was abolished in November 1980.

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