[LINK] Census: OAIC's Vacuous Pseudo-Investigation Report

Paul Brooks pbrooks-link at layer10.com.au
Sun Aug 14 17:17:57 AEST 2016


On 12/08/2016 2:44 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>
>
> On 12/08/16 13:25, David Boxall wrote:
>> On 12/08/2016 12:39 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>>> ...
>>> How did those who completed the census early, including the Prime
>>> Minister, know where they would spend that night?
>>> ...
>> The lady who delivered my census form (yes, I got one hand-delivered) told me that
>> I could lodge at any time from then (the Saturday preceding nominal census night).
>> On TV that night or soon after, an ABS representative commented that more than
>> 100,000 lodgements had already been processed. Lodgement will be accepted up to (I
>> think) 13 September.
>
> What does lodgement mean? Is that return of the form ie receipt by the census office?
>
> Odd suggesting to people filling out the paper form that they could do it ahead of
> time. The letter to householders informed us Census Night was August 9.

There seems to be some flexibility on dates and times. I initially thought I would not
be counted, as I was out of the country on census Tuesday night - my inbound flight
didn't enter Australian airspace until around 4am EST Wednesday morning, touchdown at
9am. However, the census instructions say to include anyone that was absent on the
night, but returned the following day....so I was counted at home after all. I had
thought I would be included in the Qantas form :-)

Paul.




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