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 (renamed the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1975).[1]
Commonwealth Statisticians
- George Handley Knibbs (1906 – 1921[2])
- Charles Henry Wickens (August 1922 – April 1932,[3] although Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin was appointed acting Commonwealth Statistician following Wickens' stroke in 1931[4])
- Edward Tannock McPhee (1933 – 1936)[4]
- Sir Roland Wilson (1936 – 1940; 1946 – 1951)[4]
- Sir Stanley Roy Carver (acting from 1940[5] or 1941[4] to 1946, and again from 1948, although not formally appointed until 1951;[5] Commonwealth Statistician from 20 August 1957 to 1961[4] or 6 February 1962[5])
- Keith Archer (1962 – 1970)[4]
- Jack O'Neill (1970 – 1975)
Australian Statisticians
- Jack O'Neill (1975 – 1976)
- Sir William Cole (1976)[4]
- Roy Cameron (July 1977 – 1985)[4]
- Ian Castles (July 1986 – 1994)[4]
- Bill McLennan (1995 – July 2000)[6]
- Dennis Trewin (July 2000 – January 2007)
- Brian Pink (March 2007 – January 2014)[7]
- David Kalisch (December 2014 – present)
References
- ^ CENSUS 86 - How Australia Takes a Census
- ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Knibbs, Sir George Handley (1858 - 1929) (Australian Dictionary of Biography)
- ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Wickens, Charles Henry (1872 - 1939)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Building a national statistical agency: From the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics to the Australian Bureau of Statistics
- ^ a b c Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Carver, Sir Stanley Roy (1897 - 1967)
- ^ "Appointment of Australian Statistician". Press Release, Treasurer of Australia. 2000-06-29. Archived from the original on 2006-08-25. Retrieved 2007-01-31.
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