Australian Census 2026 happens in August
I won't be participating. If I choose to put information on the form it will be false info.
Apparently this year the aim is to get most people to do the questions online whereas the 2021 census was still a wholly paper-based exercise.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics since the 2011 Census has been using 'linkage keys' to allow the government to create 'virtual folders' of data cross-linked with other government departments about individuals. This permits un-warranted (literally) access between various government department databases (primarily tax, centrelink. and medicare but others too like federal police, asio, border force, etc.) to extract a 'dosier' about individuals should a government wonk want to do that.
Apparently this year the aim is to get most people to do the questions online whereas the 2021 census was still a wholly paper-based exercise.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics since the 2011 Census has been using 'linkage keys' to allow the government to create 'virtual folders' of data cross-linked with other government departments about individuals. This permits un-warranted (literally) access between various government department databases (primarily tax, centrelink. and medicare but others too like federal police, asio, border force, etc.) to extract a 'dosier' about individuals should a government wonk want to do that.
