census
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Australia’s 2021 Census: We’re More Millennial, More Multicultural and Less Religious
Census data to be released Tuesday shows Australia changing rapidly before COVID, gaining an extra one million residents from overseas in the past five years, almost all of them in the three years before borders were closed. For the first time since the question has been asked in the census, more than half of Australia’s…
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#CensusFail: IBM Slammed For Failing To Block Puny DDoS Attacks
IBM and Nextgen have been blaming each other for the failure of Census 2016. Based on today’s Senate Economics References Committee hearing into #CensusFail, it appears both companies were at fault to some extent. Nextgen may have incorrectly implemented geoblocking aimed at mitigating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks while IBM acknowledged it should have…
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Reminder: You Only Have One More Week To Complete The Australian Census
September 23 is the official Australian Census deadline. This means you only have seven days to complete the form if you haven’t got around to it yet. Here’s what you need to know.
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IBM And The ABS Census: Let The Blame Games Begin
In the wake of the Census debacle that happened this week, there’s been a lot of finger-pointing as to who was to blame. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has put the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and IBM, the company hosting and managing the Census website, on notice, expressing his disappointment over Tuesday’s website meltdown. Well,…