Are you scared of your Census 2016?

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Send em an account for your time, power etc,charge out rates in 15 minute blocks .
After all they have stated that if you don't you'll be hit with a fine.
Well **** me ,how many people have been put out and upset because they tried to do the right thing and the system **** itself.and then got pissed off because they missed Home and Away.....they deserve it so it's not really valid.

Imagine,just imagine that you had a website that was pushing a given article or business and got multi million hits in one evening,so many hits that the site crashed ?
Hmm, the big mean intrusive Census, Facebook is where all the info is....ohh dear I've run out of milk or posting a selfie for all the world to see,parties,kids etc.
So,getting back on track that 15 minute block of charge out rates has gotta be $ 100.00 / hr...any advances?
Prolly 5 million+ Aussies hitting em with a $ 200.00 account might make them sit up and take notice.
Ummm ...well that was satisfying for me so do now carry on.
 
people tend to forget..it's your internet time you are using to complete their surveys and what ever online crap they want us to complete..no wonder they say they are saving money(No Cenus taker's)..if the goverment want me to use the net.i use there faclities..can a computer answer a enquiry..and i wonder if telstra had anything to do with it...also i got a paper version to fill out which i did with option to use MY internet
 
Worked with some farmers today and they said census staff actually drove out to their farms and dropped off paper copies without them asking. Are the census people using double standards of delivery and service? Will this skew the results?
 
I got a hand delivered paper copy too, I live in a semi rural area so just assumed it was their way of acknowledging how **** our internet speed is
 
Yep but it will skew the data.. One type of information is how many /what age group fills it out online and what proportion on paper. If presumption is to hand deliver to rural areas that's a presumption that stuffs the results.
Living in built up areas is no guarantee of good internet access. This whole thing is flawed big time.
 
knobjockey boss gets 600k+ to create a dabacle, would've dunnit for a few bottles

yes i know it's only 470 million dollars worth of our money they don't give a **** about

this gov. is effin hopeless
 
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To say the least I was joking about it on Tuesday night. It was a rude awakening Wednesday morning.
Oh well. Whatever will be will be. We are sheeple at the least. Or power of people will prevail by the numbers.
 
Liam_snorkel said:
That's not really the point, the point is that we're giving the government our name, address, reported income, name & address of employer, all in one neatly packaged file which (then say they can't but definitely will) the ATO/centrelink etc will access. So, suck **** to everyone filling out dodgy tax returns or milking inappropriate deductions. The services you mention are separate commercial entities and don't have the legal ability to use this information for anything other than advertising, and don't have the ability to prosecute. The ATO does, and has in the past, and will.
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pcmfisher said:
But the Government, ATO and Centrelink already have that info.
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They have completely ruined the integrity of data. Heaps of great points of discussion further in from this
Edit: I used to fill them in ...well reasonably accurately however I'm sure many never did to begin with/ or fill them according to self interest :-/
Since the introduction of meta data laws I don't sit comfortably with this and am still yet to get it done.
 
The Queensland Government paid IBM a shitload of money to roll out a Health Payroll software update that saw many good Health Workers overpaid, underpaid or completely not paid for a substantial period of time. A couple of senior Public Servants got the chop.

The Federal Government paid IBM a shitload of money to roll out a Census Website that crashed as soon as it got some traffic. Malcolm has already laid the blame with the ABS and has assured that some Public Servant heads will roll.
 
madpierre06 said:
Paper version coming, let 'em make what they will of what I'll be giving 'em.
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Perhaps they could print the same *** marriage plebiscite on the back and save some paper.
 
I've got a census form somewhere that a lady delivered. Should I fill it in?
 
IBM have also been given the responsibility to deliver the NSW HSC results. I expect that will be another ****-up.
 
We just need to name, shame and continue to keep the blame these fuckers. There is no way that they can be engaged on contracts of this magnitude without the signature of a Minister yet its the Public Servants who get the shaft when it all goes **** up.
 
Yeah really, the census data is nothing compared to what gets hoovered up by private industry.

In the early 2000's I was an IT consultant in the USA and the Fortune 500 company I worked for wanted to consolidate their own customers (32 million odd) so they could remove duplicates and get to know their customers better. As part of the review, we sent a sample of data to a third party that sourced data from another LOTS of other companies, including all the insurance companies, banks and credit cards. The information that came back as available to us was a total shock, to say the least. For every 1Mb of data we sent, would could get back 100'sMb of related transactions, account details, policy details, corporate dealings, postal details, licenses, their favourite brand of ice cream, where they bought coffees, what bread they liked etc. etc. etc.

Government is probably the last place we need to be worrying about our data.

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