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HISTORY. On 1 Jan. 1901 New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania were federated under the name of the ‘Commonwealth of Australia’, the designation of ‘colonies’ being at the same time changed into that of ‘states’—except in the case of Northern Territory, which was transferred from South Australia to the Commonwealth as a ‘territory’ on 1 Jan. 1911.
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Books of Reference
The principal publications of the Bureau are
Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia. 1907 to date
Pocket Compendium of Australian Statistics. 1913 to date
Quarterly Summary of Australian Statistics, Dec. 1917 to date
Monthly Review of Business Statistics, Oct. 1937 to date
Digest of Current Statistics. Aug. 1959 to date
Special Publications
Census—Detailed Tables and Statistician’s Report. 1911–61.—1966 Preliminary Tables
Australian Life Tables. 1881–90 to 1960–62
Australian Balance of Payments. 1928–29 to 1951–52
Annual printed bulletins are listed under specified subjects.
The Northern Territory: Annual Report. Dept. of Territories. Canberra, from 1911
Australian Territories. Dept. of Territories. Canberra, 1960 to date
Northern Territory Statistical Summary. Bureau of Census and Statistics. Canberra, from 1960
Prospects of Agriculture in the Northern Territory. Dept. of Territories. Canberra, 1961
Northern Territory Scientific Liaison Conference, Darwin 1961, Conference Papers. Melbourne, 1961
Holmes, J. M., Australia’s Open North. Sydney, 1963
Lockwood, D. W., Fair Dinkum. London, 1960
Polisheck, N., Life on the Daly River. London, 1961
A.C.T. Statistical Summary. Bureau of Census and Statistics. From 1960
National Capital Development Commission, Canberra, The Future Canberra, 1965
Borrie, W. D., and others, Canberra: the next decade. Canberra, 1963
Wigmore, L., The Long View: a history of Australia’s national capital. Melbourne, 1963
The Territory of Papua. Annual Report. Commonwealth of Australia. 1906–1940–41 and from 1945–46
The Territory of New Guinea. Annual Report. Commonwealth of Australia. 1914–1940–41 and from 1946–47
Report on New Guinea. UN visiting missions to … Nauru and New Guinea. New York, 1962
International Bank, The economic development of the territory of Papua and New Guinea. Johns Hopkins Press and CUP, 1965
Bettison, D. G., and others, Independence of Papua-New Guinea. Sydney, 1962.
Bettison, D. G.,The Papua-New Guinea Elections 1964. Canberra, 1966
Essai, B., Papua and New Guinea. Melbourne, 1961
Hasluck, P. M. C., The Economic Development of Papua-New Guinea. Canberra, 1962
Robson, R. W. (ed.). Handbook of Papua and New Guinea. Rev. ed. Sydney, 1961
Ryan, J., The Hot Land. London, 1970
Simpson, C., Plumes and Arrows Inside New Guinea. Sydney, 1962
Wilkes, J. (ed.), New Guinea and Australia. Austral Inst. of Political Science, 1959
STATISTICAL INFORMATION. The NSW Government Statistician’s Office was established in 1886, and in 1957 was integrated with the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics. Deputy Commonwealth Statistician and Government Statistician of NSW: R. G. Walker. Its principal publications are:
Official Year-Book of New South Wales (1886/87–1900/01 under the title Wealth and Progress of NSW): latest full issue, 1969: separate sections, 1969
New South Wales Statistical Register. Published annually since 1858; latest issue of separate sections, 1967–68 and 1968
New South Wales Pocket Year-Book. Published since 1913 latest issue, 1970
New South Wales Statistical Bulletin (quarterly). Published since 1905 (except 1943–48
Monthly Summary of Business Statistics. Published since May 1931
New South Wales Dept. of Tourist Activities, Facts about New South Wales. Sydney, 1968
State Planning Authority, Sydney Region: Prelude to a Plan. Sydney, 1967.
State Planning Authority, Sydney Region: Outline Plan. Sydney, 1968
Sydney City Council, The City of Sydney: Official Guide. Sydney, 1966
STATE LIBRARY. The Public Library of NSW, Macquarie St., Sydney. Principal Librarian: G. D. Richardson, MA.
STATISTICAL INFORMATION. The Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics (Commonwealth Banks Building, corner of Elizabeth and Flinders Streets, Melbourne, 3000). Deputy Commonwealth Statistician and Government Statist: V. H. Arnold, FIA.
Victorian Year-Book. (Annually since 1873)
Victorian Pocket Year-Book. (Annually since 1956)
Victorian Statistical Register. (Annually from 1854 to 1916)
Quarterly Abstract of Statistics. (Feb. 1947–March 1958)
Victorian Monthly Statistical Review (from Jan. 1960)
Victoria: The First Century. Official History of Victoria. Melbourne, 1934
Leeper, G. W. (ed.), Introducing Victoria. Melbourne, 1955
McIntyre, A. J. and J. J., Country Towns of Victoria: a Social Survey. Melbourne, 1944
Pratt, A., The Centenary History of Victoria. Melbourne, 1934
STATELIBRARY. The State Library of Victoria, Swanston St., Melbourne, 3000. Chief Librarian: K. A. R. Horn, BA, Mus.B(NZ), Dip.NZLS.
STATISTICAL INFORMATION. The Statistical Office (320–330 Adelaide St., Brisbane) was set up in 1859. Deputy Commonwealth Statistician: A. W. Mumme. A Queensland Official Year Book was issued in 1901, the annual ABC of Queensland Statistics from 1905 to 1936 with exception of 1918 and 1922. Present publications include: Queensland Year Book. Annual, from 1937 (omitting 1942, 1943, 1944).—Queensland Pocket Year Book. Annual, from 1950.—Statistics of Queensland. Annual, from 1859.—Monthly Summary of Queensland Statistics. From Jan. 1961
Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Introducing Queensland. Brisbane, 1961
Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, The Queensland Agricultural and Pastoral Handbook. 2 vols. Brisbane, 1962
Australian Sugar Year Book. Brisbane, from 1941
Bolton, G. C., A thousand miles away! a history of North Queensland to 1920. Brisbane, 1963
Cilento, R., and Lack, C., Triumph in the Tropics. Brisbane, 1959
Greenwood, G., and Laverty, J., Brisbane 1859–1959. Sydney, 1959
Greenwood, R. H., Queensland, City, Coast and Country. London, 1959
Lack, C., Queensland, Daughter of the Sun. Brisbane, 1959.
Lack, C.,Three Decades of Queensland Political History. Brisbane, 1962
STATE LIBRARY. The Public Library of Queensland, William St., Brisbane. State Librarian: J. L. Stapleton.
STATISTICAL INFORMATION. The State branch of the Commonweakh Bureau of Census and Statistics is in Prudential Building, 195 North Terrace, Adelaide (GPO Box 143 3J). Deputy Commonwealth Statistician: D. L. J. Aitchison. Although the first printed statistical publication was the Statistics of South Australia, 1854 with the title altered to Statistical Register in 1859, there is a written volume for each year back to 1838. These contain simple records of trade, demography, production, etc. and were prepared only for the use of the Colonial office; one copy was retained in the State.
The publications of the State branch include the South Australian Year Book, the Pocket Year Book of South Australia and the Statistical Register (annual), a printed Quarterly Abstract and a duplicated Monthly Summary of Statistics, a duplicated quarterly bulletin of building constructions, duplicated quarterly bulletins of trade statistics and approximately 20 special duplicated bulletins issued each year as particulars of various sections of statistics become available.
Best, R. J. (ed.), Introducing South Australia. Cambridge, 1959
Centenary History of South Australia. Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. Adelaide, 1936
Finlayson, H. H., The Red Centre; Man and Beast in the Heart of Australia. 2nd ed. Sydney, 1952
Madigan, C. T., Central Australia. 2nd ed. Melbourne, 1944
STATE LIBRARY. The State Library of S.A., North Terrace, Adelaide. State Librarian: H. C. Brideson, BA.
STATISTICAL INFORMATION. The State Government Statistician’s Office was established in 1897 and now functions as the Western Australian Office of the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics (37 St George’s Tee, Perth). Deputy Commonwealth Statistician and Government Statistician: F. W. Sayer. Its principal publications are: Statistical Register of Western Australia (annual, from 1896). Western Australian Year Book (new series, from 1957). Western Australian Pocket Year Book (from 1919). Quarterly Statistical Abstract (from 1917). Abstract of Statistics of Local Government Areas (annual, from 1960).
Crowley, F. K., A Short History of Western Australia. Melbourne. 1959.
Crowley, F. K.,Australia’s Western Third. London, 1960
Gentilli, J., Atlas of Western Australian Agriculture. Perth, 1941
Kerr, Alex, The South-West Region of Western Australia. Perth, 1965.
Kerr, Alex, Australia’s North-West. Perth, 1967
Stephenson, G., and Hepburn, J. A., Plan for the Metropolitan Region: Perth and Fremantle. Perth, 1955
STATE LIBRARY. The State Library of Western Australia, Perth. State Librarian: F. A. Sharr, BA.
STATISTICAL INFORMATION. The State Government Statistical Office (Kirksway House, Kirks-way PI., Hobart), established in 1877, became in 1924 the Tasmanian Office of the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, but continues to serve State statistical needs as required. Deputy Commonwealth Statistician and Government Statistician: R. Lakin.
Main publications: Statistics of the State of Tasmania. Annual (from 1822).—Pocket Year Book of Tasmania. Annual (from 1913).
Main publications: Tasmanian Year Book, Annual (from 1967).
Main publications: Monthly Summary of Statistics (from July 1945)
Clark, C. I., The Parliament of Tasmania. Hobart, 1947
Davies, J. L. (ed.), Atlas of Tasmania. Hobart, 1965
Green, F. C. (ed.), A Century of Responsible Government. Hobart, 1956
Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac. Hobart and London. Annual
Wettenball, R. L., A Guide to Tasmanian Government Administration. Hobart, 1968
STATE LIBKARY. The State Library of Tasmania, Hobart. Librarian: A. E. Browning, B.Ec, FLA, ALAA.
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Steinberg, S.H., Paxton, J. (1969). The Commonwealth of Australia. In: Steinberg, S.H., Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book 1969–1970. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270985_7
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