Australian Statistician

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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). [CENSUS 86 - How Australia Takes a Census]

The current Australian Statistician is Dennis Trewin.

Commonwealth Statisticians

• George Handley Knibbs (1906 – 1921 [Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Knibbs, Sir George Handley (1858 - 1929)] (Australian Dictionary of Biography))
• Charles Henry Wickens (August 1922 – April 1932 [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 [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 [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)
• William McLennan (July 1994 – July 2000)
• Dennis Trewin (July 2000 – present)

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