Code Red: How the Bureau of Statistics bungled the 2016 census

By Peter Martin
Updated August 15 2016 - 6:16am, first published August 13 2016 - 9:26am
Bureau of Statistics head Duncan Young. Photo: SBS
Bureau of Statistics head Duncan Young. Photo: SBS
Assistant Treasurer Michael McCormack and the ABS chief statistician David Kalisch explain the census outage on Wednesday. Photo: Andrew Meares
Assistant Treasurer Michael McCormack and the ABS chief statistician David Kalisch explain the census outage on Wednesday. Photo: Andrew Meares
Brian Pink, former chief statistician of the Australian Bureau of Statistics.  Photo: Andrew Meares
Brian Pink, former chief statistician of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Photo: Andrew Meares
Chief statistician David Kalisch during a press conference on the ABS census outage. Photo: Andrew Meares
Chief statistician David Kalisch during a press conference on the ABS census outage. Photo: Andrew Meares

At what ought to have been the height of preparations for the 2016 census, its head, Duncan Young, sent his colleagues in the Bureau of Statistics executive a crisis memo.

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