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The National Deposit Insurance Corporation Ltd (NDIC) was set up by the building society industry with the support of the federal government in 1984 as a public company. It was originally registered as the Australian Building Society Share and Deposit Insurance Corporation Ltd (ABSSDIC) and changed its name to the National Deposit Insurance Corporation Ltd in 1986. Its shareholders were only to be permanent building societies and provided deposit insurance coverage to its member societies. The Chief Executive from 1985 was David Horton. The company went into voluntary liquidation on 16 April 1993.

By 1889, Fort Bourke Station had been taken up by M P Fitzgerald & Co, whose members were Nicholas Fitzgerald, Edward Fitzgerald, Mathew O'Shanassy and Robert Prendergast. Nicholas Fitzgerald, who was a partner in Fort Bourke and other properties was a member of the Melbourne Board of Directors of Goldsbrough Mort and Company Ltd (1890 - 1896). In 1905 Samuel McCaughey bought it and then sold the station to Thomas Waddell in 1913. Fort Bourke Pastoral Company purchased the station in 1918. In 1922 the station was taken over by Arthur Bryant Triggs and in 1938 it was purchased by F S Falkiner & Sons Pty Ltd who later sold the property to K S Peken.

The company was established by Peter Cullen, a Canberra-based political lobbyist.

The Canberra Publishing Co Ltd was registered on 21 July 1936 as a company to undertake the publication and distribution of a monthly periodical named 'The Australian National Review'. The company was wound up in 1944.

The company was established in London in 1910, to promote the cultivation of tropical plantations (rubber, cotton, tobacco, sugar, coconut and cocoa) as well as carrying on financial and mercantile tradings. In May 1910, the company held its first statutory general meeting. One of the first properties acquired was the Itikinuma Estate at Sogeri, near Port Moresby. General Managers included Charles A Darling [1910], Lewis J Cowley [1912 - 1915], G A Loudon [1916 - 1920]. The company was registered in England July 17, 1922. It was last listed in Jobson's Year Book of Public Companies of Australia and New Zealand as of 1967.

In October 1913, Walter Burley Griffin was appointed Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction of Canberra for a period of three years, extended in 1916 for a further three years and in 1919 by quarterly periods. In 1921, a Federal Capital Advisory Committee recommended the termination of Walter Burley Griffin's services and the design and construction of the city was effectively transferred to the Department of Works.