Excerpt from Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia: Containing Authoritative Statistics for the Period 1901-1907 and Corrected Statistics for the Period 1788 to 1900
BY the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Commonwealth 'is empowered to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth, with respect to, inter alia, Census and Statistics. In exercising the power so conferred, a Census and Statistics Act was passed in 1905, and' in the year following the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics was created. The publication here presented is therefore the first authoritative Year Book issued under the Federal Constitution.
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