Complex sentence: Its authority had been compromised by a poorly drafted charter and further undermined by timid management, poor governance and creeping wartime censorship in April 1945, Boyer refused to accept the post of chairman until Prime Minister Curtin issued a mandate of independence which Boyer drafted itself.
Split into simpler sentences: Its authority had been compromised by a poorly drafted charter and further undermined by timid management, poor governance and creeping wartime censorship. In April 1945, Boyer refused to accept the post of chairman until Prime Minister Curtin issued a mandate of independence which Boyer drafted itself.