Postal and Telecommunications Department

{{Short description|Australian government department, 1975–1980}}

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|agency_name = Postal and Telecommunications Department

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|formed = 22 December 1975{{citation|title=CA 1959:Postal and Telecommunications Department, Policy Secretariat, [Canberra]|url=http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+1959|publisher=National Archives of Australia|accessdate=5 December 2013}}

|preceding1 = Postmaster-General's Department

Department of the Media – for electronic media

|dissolved = 3 November 1980

|superseding = Department of Transport and Communications

|type = Department

|jurisdiction = Commonwealth of Australia

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| chief1_name = Fred Green

| chief1_position = Secretary (1975–1979)

| chief2_name = Bob Lansdown

| chief2_position = Secretary (1979–1980)

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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.