Dear Yuyu

Wot's wrong wit tue boy/girl?

If a Pharaoh or Stalin or Mao had any relevance to Australia your comment would have some meaning.

But they don't and yours doesn't.

Now, if Billy Hughes returns and runs for PM in 2019, then I'll take notice.

//The purpose of the census is to remind us that Big Brother is watching and keep us under his thumb. The rest are but transparent pretexts.//

Whatever, Yuyutsu...

The census counts people in dwellings. Don't want to be counted? Go camping on census night and you can render yourself invisible for census purposes.

Although I don't know why you'd bother. The ABS are not the Gestapo, they're statisticians for heavens sake. A bunch of bean-counters so boring that accountants would avoid them at parties if they ever got invited. They are entirely harmless, and tossing them a few beans to count to keep them amused is not going to lead to the rise of a totalitarian state.

Dear Toni,

«Go camping on census night and you can render yourself invisible for census purposes.»

I was planning just that, but the bastards even closed this loophole. They now expect you to report as if you've been home if you returned home on Wednesday and even if you return home only on Thursday, they still want you to report about people who have been regularly living in this house during the past 6 months or are expected to live there during the next 6 months. Moreover, their online software will not allow you to report that nobody has been home (even when indeed nobody was home), but instead tells you that in that case you must phone them instead. It seems that they have become more sophisticated than just a bunch of boring bean-counters.

No, the ABS are not the Gestapo - they are useful idiots who serve the regime. They will be the first to view your information - but who be the next?

What we need, buddy, is a revolution. Kick out that gang and dismantle their crime-syndicate which they call "The Commonwealth of Australia". Free the good people of this continent from their evil!

Dear Plantagenet,

What material(s) do you build a nation with?

Bricks? Wood? Iron? Rocks? Sand?

No: nations are made of people - and those people are us!

What that gang wants, is to subjugate us and use up our precious lives - the lives of all who happen to live in this continent and the islands surrounding it, to satisfy their pervert ambitions of building a nation. The census is but a stock-take within the regime's overall terrorist plot.

Dearest Yuyu

While you clearly prefer Mao and Stalin my hero is the loco Billy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hughes .

Now, if Billy Hughes returns and runs as Senator for Queensland on a United Australia Party ticket, then I'll take notice.

Poida

The old saying that you cannot control or plan for anything you don't measure is as true today as it was decades ago. It is the difference between forward planning and reactive planning.

A census every 5 yrs or so shows not only where we are today, but comparing against previous records where we are likely to be. Waking up to a crisis of a shortage of school or geriatric care places is costly to fix if not planned for.