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]

Timothy Augustine Coghlan was offered the position in December 1905, but had to decline due to his obligations to the New South Wales government.[2]

Commonwealth Statisticians

  • George Handley Knibbs (1906 1921[3])
  • Charles Henry Wickens (August 1922 April 1932,[4] although Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin was appointed acting Commonwealth Statistician following Wickens' stroke in 1931[5])
  • Edward Tannock McPhee (1933 1936)[5]
  • Sir Roland Wilson (1936 1940; 1946 1951)[5]
  • Sir Stanley Roy Carver (acting from 1940[6] or 1941[5] to 1946, and again from 1948, although not formally appointed until 1951;[6] Commonwealth Statistician from 20 August 1957 to 1961[5] or 6 February 1962[6])
  • Keith Archer (1962 1970)[5]
  • Jack O'Neill (1970 1975)

Australian Statisticians

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