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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