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Census 2016: government again rises to its level of incompetence

10 August 2016

2:39 PM

10 August 2016

2:39 PM

ABS

Having spent the past few days feverishly reassuring the public the census was going to go off without a hitch, and then pre-emptively declaring it a success, it was almost a certainty disaster would strike the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Indeed the biggest surprise about the failure of the Census is that people are still surprised at government stuff-ups any more.

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