Bean counting not people counting: why the ABS can't afford Census 2016

By Peter Martin
Updated February 25 2015 - 10:08am, first published February 20 2015 - 7:25am

Make other plans for census night next year. The Bureau of Statistics says it wants to cancel it, in part because of the "significant reporting burden" the census imposes on us. But its own burdens worry it the most.

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