The Australian Statistician is the head of the

Australian Bureau of Statistics The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is an List of Australian Government entities, Australian Government agency that collects and analyses statistics on economic, population, Natural environment, environmental, and social issues to advi ...

. 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 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 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
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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 Governmen ...

(1986 – 1994) * Bill McLennan (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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