Explainer: what is the census, and why does it matter?
- Written by Nicholas Biddle, Fellow, Australian National University
The act of taking a census is as old as civilisation itself.AAP/Dean LewinsDespite being one of our oldest public institutions, the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) social media campaign for the 2016 Census is a clever nod to the modern zeitgeist. This census will ask us to “pause” (presumably Netflix) and “make a...







