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Australia’s census is getting a stress test – keeping it going is good for everyone

The Australian Bureau of Statistics will roll out a large-scale census test next month. About 60,000 households will take part across the country to stress test the bureau’s collection processes and ...
Yahoo

Australia's controversial census in chaos after possible cyber attack

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's first online national census was in chaos on Wednesday after the survey website crashed overnight due to a possible cyber attack, raising concerns over the country's ...
Ars Technica

Australians threaten to take leave of their census

Update, August 9: The Australian census website crashed today as around 65 percent of the country’s total population—some 16 million people—attempted to submit their census form online. According to ...
ZDNet

Australian 2021 digital Census to be built on AWS

Island Australia and the IBM omnishambles is no more, with PwC Australia being announced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) as its IT partner for the 2021 Census. The Adecco Group also ...
Time Out

The 2026 Census is coming up in Australia – here’s what you need to do

We’re officially less than 100 days out from Australia’s biggest data collection. Every five years, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) counts every person and household across the country to ...
CNN

Australians ditch religion at rapid rate, becoming more diverse

Nearly a third of people in census chose "no religion" People unaffiliated with a religion expected to shrink as a percent of global population Australia is becoming older and more diverse – both ...
The Conversation

Australian census: for better or worse, marriage persists

AUSTRALIA BY NUMBERS: The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released the first batch of its census data. We’ve asked some of the country’s top demographers and statisticians to crunch the numbers on ...
Phys.org

LGBTQI+ Australians are tired of being ignored—here's why counting them in the census is so important

The 2026 Census presented a crucial opportunity to count the LGBTQI+ population in Australia for the first time. Instead, the Albanese government has opted to disregard important questions on gender ...

Falling living standards test Australia’s population-led growth model

Policymakers have spent too long mistaking a larger economy for a more prosperous one and evaded the more difficult and ...
The Conversation

Census 2016 reveals Australia is becoming much more diverse – but can we trust the data?

According to data released today, there were 23,401,892 people who were counted in Australia on the night of the 2016 Census who were usually resident in Australia. After adjusting for undercount and ...
Campaign Brief

The Design Institute of Australia launches national advocacy campaign via Clemenger BBDO to count Australia’s designers in the 2026 Census

Despite contributing an estimated $67.5 billion* to the Australian economy each year, there is currently no reliable baseline ...