When the Census website crashed and was taken offline on August 9, the ABS was quick to blame overseas hackers. And in its defence, blaming foreigners has worked pretty well for authorities in this country on pretty much every other issue up till now.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
They had one job: Count 24 million people in the National Census. But now the Turnbull government looks like a deer caught in the headlights.
One of the most stunning things about the spectacular implosion of the National Census is that it was billed by the government as 鈥渢he largest online event in Australian history鈥.
From 1954 to 1972, Australia鈥檚 official unemployment rate was under 2% as the economy grew at the most rapid rate in the country鈥檚 history. There was one exception, the credit squeeze year of 1961, in which unemployment rose to 2.4%.
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