The Review of the Continuing Expenditure Policies of the Previous Government, the Coombs Report (June 1973) presented to the Commonwealth government recommended that the scheme be discontinued. According to the Coombs Report, this recommendation was based on significant agreement among health authorities that the continuation of the free milk scheme could not be justified on nutritional grounds. Benefits to the diet were likely to be minimal beyond the age of seven. The scheme ended in 1973.