A decade on, the ABS is still rehearsing the same fall

SMH · Rob Harris · Wednesday 27 May 2026

A decade on, the ABS is still rehearsing the same fall

A scathing review of the 11 August census warns the ABS still has critical security gaps to close — a decade after the 2016 collapse.

Ten years on from the night the ABS site fell over like a card table at a wedding, and the review's found the same holes in the fence. Lessons learned, apparently — just not by the people running the count.

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