Australian Statistician

The Australian Statistician is the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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). [ [http://assda.anu.edu.au/census/c86/hatac86/section1.html CENSUS 86 - How Australia Takes a Census] ]

Commonwealth Statisticians

* George Handley Knibbs (1906 – 1921 [ [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090623b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Knibbs, Sir George Handley (1858 - 1929)] (Australian Dictionary of Biography)] )
* Charles Henry Wickens (August 1922 – April 1932 [ [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120541b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Wickens, Charles Henry (1872 - 1939)] ] )
* Edward Tannock McPhee (1932 – 1936)
* Sir Roland Wilson (1936 – 1951)
* Sir Stanley Roy Carver (acting from 1941 [ [http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/90a12181d877a6a6ca2568b5007b861c/c5e5a2d6d96d1aafca256f720083303c!OpenDocument Building a national statistical agency: From the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics to the Australian Bureau of Statistics] ] ; 20 August 1957 – 6 February 1962 [ [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130423b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Carver, Sir Stanley Roy (1897 - 1967)] ] )
* Keith Archer (1962 – 1970)
* Jack O'Neill (1970 – 1975)

Australian Statisticians

* Jack O'Neill (1975 – 1976)
* Sir William Cole (1976)
* Roy Cameron (July 1977 – 1986)
* Ian Castles (July 1986 – 1994)
* Bill McLennan (July 1994 – July 2000) [cite web | url = http://www.treasurer.gov.au/tsr/content/pressreleases/2000/065.asp | title = Appointment of Australian Statistician | date = 2000-06-29 | work = Press Release, Treasurer of Australia | accessdate = 2007-01-31 ]
* Dennis Trewin (July 2000 – January 2007)
* Brian Pink (March 2007 – "present") [cite web | url = http://www.treasurer.gov.au/tsr/content/pressreleases/2006/135.asp | title = Appointment of Australian Statistician | date = 2006-12-13 | work = Press Release, Treasurer of Australia | accessdate = 2007-01-12]

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