[LINK] ABS retribution?

[Roger Clarke]

>On 2016-08-02 11:21 Jan Whitaker wrote:
>> BUT the ABS has another rock they can throw. A woman on ABC Melbourne this morning said she did a protest form last census and got caught up in the "special" census projects where you have to call in and tell them stuff weekly for MONTHS.

At 10:03 +1000 3/8/16, David Lochrin wrote:
>Can something like this be true?  I googled for anything along those lines without success and couldn't see anything on the ABC Local (Melbourne) website.  If it is and more information is available, Senator Xenophon's office should be informed as he's recommending the Government delay the census because it will be "a debacle" otherwise.

There's a considerable, and perhaps burgeoning, collection of longitudinal studies, and the ABS invokes the obligatoriness factor that they have arranged to have in their legislation. 

There's a considerable amount of information on some of them here:

    APF Public Info Statement re ABS Compulsory Surveys:
    http://www.privacy.org.au/Resources/ABSSurvInfoStmt-2012.html

These have caused a lot of grief to a lot of people.

I should add that I'm not aware of the selection of subjects departing from the conventional 'random within targeted population' principles, and instead being used for revenge.

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