while it appeared clear that the constitution of the commonwealth of australia placed responsibility for wireless telegraphy with the commonwealth rather than the individual states and territories, to remove any possible doubt, the wireless telegraphy act of 1905 made this explicit. the wireless telegraphy act, no. 8 of 1905 may be cited as the wireless telegraphy act 1905 and was assented to 18 october 1905. the initial act was brief and to the point, being only a single page and even after almost 80 years of amendments, remained equally concise when finally repealed in 1983. the act: