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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2017-07-04 human Elizabeth Daniels updated 2022-06-08 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005805b.htm CA 983 corporateBody Bureau of Agricultural Economics Department of War Organisation of Industry, Commonwealth of Australia AACR2 Division of Agricultural Economics 1945 1987 Location Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia The Bureau of Agricultural Economics was established on 1 August 1945 and sat within the Federal Government Department of War Organisation of Industry then the Government Department of Post-War Reconstruction. In 1946 the Bureau of Agricultural Economics was renamed the Division of Agricultural Economics and transferred to the Department of Commerce and Agriculture. It would later revert to its original name: the Bureau of Agricultural Economics before it was merged in 1987 with the Bureau of Resource Economics and became the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Its original functions where related to land settlements of ex-military personnel, to implement the recommendations of the Rural Reconstruction Commission, by the 1980s the focus had shifted to the economic potential of Australian agricultural products, monitoring the impact of economic developments on agriculture and providing reports, policy advice and information to various Government departments and bodies on economics and agriculture. Stoeckel, Andrew 1970 1986

Director from 1981 - 1986

 Department of Post-War Reconstruction, Commonwealth of Australia (1942 - 1950) 1945 1950 'Bureau of Agricultural Economics', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Bureau of Agricultural Economics Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation