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The Territory of Papua and New Guinea was established by an administrative union between the Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n-administered territories of Papua and New Guinea
Territory of New Guinea

Territory of New Guinea was the name given to the Australia-controlled, League of Nations-mandated territory in the north eastern part of the island of New Guinea, and surrounding islands, between 1920 and 1949....
 in 1949.

Following the Surrender of Japan
Surrender of Japan

The surrender of Japan in August 1945 brought World War II to a close. On August 10, 1945, after the Soviet Union Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the United States atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's leaders at the Supreme War Council decided, in principle, to accept the terms the Allies of World War II had set down...
 in 1945, civil administration of Papua and New Guinea was restored, and under the Papua New Guinea Provisional Administration Act (1945-46), Papua and New Guinea were combined in an administrative union.

The Papua and New Guinea Act 1949
Papua and New Guinea Act 1949

The Papua and New Guinea Act 1949, replacing the old Papua Act 1906, changed the status of Papua and New Guinea by merging the administrations of the Papua and the German New Guinea....
 formally approved the placing of New Guinea under the international trusteeship system and confirmed the administrative union of New Guinea and Papua under the title of The Territory of Papua and New Guinea.






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The Territory of Papua and New Guinea was established by an administrative union between the Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n-administered territories of Papua and New Guinea
Territory of New Guinea

Territory of New Guinea was the name given to the Australia-controlled, League of Nations-mandated territory in the north eastern part of the island of New Guinea, and surrounding islands, between 1920 and 1949....
 in 1949.

Following the Surrender of Japan
Surrender of Japan

The surrender of Japan in August 1945 brought World War II to a close. On August 10, 1945, after the Soviet Union Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the United States atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's leaders at the Supreme War Council decided, in principle, to accept the terms the Allies of World War II had set down...
 in 1945, civil administration of Papua and New Guinea was restored, and under the Papua New Guinea Provisional Administration Act (1945-46), Papua and New Guinea were combined in an administrative union.

The Papua and New Guinea Act 1949
Papua and New Guinea Act 1949

The Papua and New Guinea Act 1949, replacing the old Papua Act 1906, changed the status of Papua and New Guinea by merging the administrations of the Papua and the German New Guinea....
 formally approved the placing of New Guinea under the international trusteeship system and confirmed the administrative union of New Guinea and Papua under the title of The Territory of Papua and New Guinea. The act provided for a Legislative Council
Legislative Council of Papua and New Guinea

The Legislative Council was created to replace direct rule and provide local rule from Papua and New Guinea. Under the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949, the Council was created and the first sitting started in 1951....
 (established in 1951), a judicial organization, a public service, and a system of local government. A House of Assembly
House of Assembly

House of Assembly is a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral legislature, in some countries, often at subnational level....
 replaced the Legislative Council in 1963, and the first House of Assembly
House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea

The House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea was the legislature of the territory of Papua and New Guinea from 1964 to 1972. Before 1964, the Legislative Council of Papua and New Guinea sat from 1951 to 1964 under the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949....
 opened on June 8 1964. In 1972, the name of the territory was changed to Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
.

See also

  • History of Papua New Guinea
    History of Papua New Guinea

    The history of Papua New Guinea can be traced back to about 60,000 years ago when people first migrated towards the Australia . The written history began when European navigators first sighted New Guinea in the early part of the 16th century....