Australian Statistician
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The Australian Statistician is the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics
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On 18 June 1906, the first Statistician of the Commonwealth of Australia was appointed to carry out the provisions of the Census and Statistics Act 1905. Later in the same year the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics was formed (re-named the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1975).
Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's national statistical agency. It was created as the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics on 8 December 1905, when the Census and Statistics Act 1905 was given Royal assent. It had its beginnings in section 51 of the Constitution of Australia...
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On 18 June 1906, the first Statistician of the Commonwealth of Australia was appointed to carry out the provisions of the Census and Statistics Act 1905. Later in the same year the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics was formed (re-named the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1975).
Commonwealth Statisticians
- George Handley KnibbsGeorge Handley KnibbsSir George Handley "The Knibb" Knibbs CMG was an Australian scientist, the first Commonwealth Statistician and the first director of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, predecessor to the CSIRO....
(1906 – 1921) - Charles Henry Wickens (August 1922 – April 1932, although Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin was appointed acting Commonwealth Statistician following Wickens' stroke in 1931)
- Edward Tannock McPhee (1933 – 1936)
- Sir Roland Wilson (1936 – 1951)
- Sir Stanley Roy Carver (acting from 1940 or 1941 to 1946, and again from 1948, although not formally appointed until 1951; Commonwealth Statistician from 20 August 1957 to 1961 or 6 February 1962)
- Keith Archer (1962 – 1970)
- Jack O'Neill (1970 – 1975)
Australian Statisticians
- Jack O'Neill (1975 – 1976)
- Sir William Cole (1976)
- Roy Cameron (July 1977 – 1985)
- Ian CastlesIan CastlesIan Castles, AO OBE was Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Finance , the Australian Statistician , and a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, Canberra.Castles was born in Kyneton, Victoria and educated at...
(July 1986 – 1994) - Bill McLennanBill McLennanWilliam Patrick McLennan is an Australian statistician who was Director of the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom and Australian Statistician.-Early years:...
(1995 – July 2000) - Dennis TrewinDennis TrewinDennis J. Trewin was the Australian Statistician, the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, between July 2000 and January 2007.Trewin joined the ABS in 1966 as a Statistics cadet...
(July 2000 – January 2007) - Brian PinkBrian PinkBrian Pink has been the Australian Statistician, the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics , since 5 March 2007.Prior to September 1999, Brian Pink was ABS's Statistical Support Group Manager, when he was appointed as the Government Statistician for New Zealand and Chief Executive of...
(March 2007 – present)