He held other senior appointments in Australia such as non-judicial member of the Australian Electoral Commission, a Director of the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare, a Commissioner for an Inquiry into the Not-for-Profit sector for the Productivity Commission, a Council member of the University of Canberra, a Trustee and Board member for ARIA (the superannuation funds for Commonwealth Government employees, Chair of the Australian Mathematics Trust and an adjunct professor at Swinburne University and the University of Canberra.
[6] He was listed as one of Australia's Smart 100 in a 2003 poll run by the Australian magazine The Bulletin.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was Chair of its Policy and Advocacy Committee.
[citation needed] In 2007, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)[8] and received a Centenary Medal[citation needed] in Recognition of his services to Australian and international statistics.
He was elected to the Alumni Hall of Fame at the ANU School of Economics and Finance.