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Did you know... ... that we have a long history of providing “Fast Facts” to the government of the day?
In 1804, statistical reporting to the Colonial Office (in London ), as well as to the local administration, was a responsibility of the Commissariat officials, who organised regular musters of the population.
In 1822, the British Government broadened the reporting requirement, with reports on the colony’s progress and economic growth compiled in the Colonial Secretary’s Office on printed forms sent out from England in bound volumes known as the “Blue Books”.
In 1856, although the need to provide Blue Books had ceased, the new Tasmanian Government asked the Colonial Secretary’s Department to prepare annual statistical reports for Parliament, using the Blue Books as a model.
Picture: The New Public Offices in Murray Street in 1848