There’s no question that Census 2016 is an omnishambles of the first order that, as Simon Cowan succinctly sums up in his related Flat White post, joins the Government Administration Stuff-Ups Hall of Fame.
As an exercise in smooth, competent, government the Census has been a debacle. Not just the unprecedented name retention and cyber-attacks (and causing a huge online exercise to fall over is a successful attack, whatever the hapless responsible minister, Michael McCormack, may say), but the whole shambolic process.
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