The Australian Statistician is the head of the

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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 (renamed the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1975).

Timothy Augustine Coghlan Sir Timothy Augustine Coghlan (9 June 1856 – 30 April 1926) was an Australian statistician, engineer, economic historian and diplomat. He held the post of New South Wales government statistician for 19 years, and served various periods as Ag ...

was offered the position in December 1905, but had to decline due to his obligations to the New South Wales government.

Commonwealth Statisticians

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(1906–1921) * Charles Henry Wickens (August 1922 – April 1932, although

Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin, (29 November 1872 – 1 March 1951) was an Australian statistician and economist. He was an unsuccessful gold prospector, played rugby union for England, and fought in the First World War. Biography Giblin was the ...

was appointed acting Commonwealth Statistician following Wickens' stroke in 1931Building a national statistical agency: From the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics to the Australian Bureau of Statistics
/ref>) * Edward Tannock McPhee (1933–1936) * Sir Roland Wilson (1936–1940; 1946–1951) * Sir Stanley Roy Carver (acting from 1940 to 1946, and again from 1948 to 1951. Formally appointed Commonwealth Statistician from 20 August 1957 to 1961 or 6 February 1962Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Carver, Sir Stanley Roy (1897 - 1967)
/ref>) * Keith Archer (1962–1970) *

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(acting from 1969-1972. Commonwealth Statistician from 1972–1975)

Australian Statisticians

* Robert William Cole 1976 * Roy James Cameron (1977 – 1985) *

Ian Castles Ian Castles (20 February 1935 – 2 August 2010) was Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Finance (1979–86), the Australian Statistician (1986–94), and a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government ...

(1986 – 1994) *

Bill McLennan William Patrick McLennan (26 January 1942 – 19 March 2022) was an Australian statistician who was Director of the Central Statistical Office (CSO) of the United Kingdom and Australian Statistician, head of the Australian Bureau of Statistic ...

(1995 – July 2000) * Dennis Trewin (July 2000 – January 2007) * Brian Pink (March 2007 – January 2014) *

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(December 2014 – December 2019) * David Gruen (December 2019 – present)

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