Donald James Weatherburn PSM (born 14 May 1951) was Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research in Sydney from 1988 until July 2019.
He is a professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales[1] and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
[2] Weatherburn attended Newington College (1964–1969)[3] and the University of Sydney where in 1974 he received his BA with first class honours.
[7] Following the introduction in February 2014 of the New South Wales lockout laws which limited the sale of alcohol in the Sydney CBD and Kings Cross, Weatherburn released a study arguing that the drop in the number of alcohol-related assaults since the new laws was "simply precipitous" and "one of the most dramatic effects I've seen in my time, of policy intervention to reduce crime".
Figures in some cases were doubled, after BOCSAR had mistakenly added positive results to searches by NSW Police.