DESTRUCTION OF AUSTRALIAN CENSUS RECORDS

I've been searching through web-search etc for the answer to this question, =
and have not yet been able to find the answer. Maybe someone here knows =
or can point me to relevant sources.

Who made the original decision to destroy Australian census returns? =
And, more importantly, what were the reasons for the decision?

Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia (currently in Chateau-du-Loir, France)

Lenore Frost...

Hi Lindsay,

Federal Parliamentarians in the Census and Statistics Act 1905. You can

There's probably a history of the Act in an Australian Year Book, but
the debates would be recorded in Hansard, if you're keen to know. (Or is
this for a triva night at the Embassy?)

Or it might be part of the folk lore in the ABS head office in Canberra
- try contacting the ABS librarian (they are sure to have one with a
much more technical name

My sources tell me there were not so many Jedi Knights in the last
Census. :-(

Best wishes,

Lenore Frost
Essendon, Vic