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Census 2021: Increase in Aussies born overseas and First Nations people getting older

Community & Social

The 2021 Census has shown an increase in both the number of Australians born overseas and the number of languages spoken at home other than

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David Gruen and the ABS’s overhaul of its jobs data-gathering will give us current information to act on

By Bernard Keane

CODE OF CONDUCT: Appointing Dr David Gruen as the Australian Statistician has turned out to be one of the better and most farsighted appointments this

The Value of the Census when combined with other data

By Gene Tunny and Nicholas Gruen and Matt Balmford

Career Advice

This is Lateral Economics’ third post regarding the Valuing the Census study it is conducting for the ABS. By combining Census data with Australian government

The promise and problems of including ‘big data’ in official government statistics

By Fleur Johns, Caroline Compton & Wayne Wobcke

Case studies

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will soon announce the kinds of information it will collect in the next national census in 2021. If international trends are

Public Sector Innovation Awards go to ABS, AUSTRAC, DFAT, Home Affairs

By Stephen Easton

Australian Capital Territory

An international coding competition organised by AUSTRAC, efficient implementation of the marriage law postal survey and a visualisation of the healthcare situation across the Pacific

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Strategies for working smarter: insights from innovators

By Slatterys

ABS, ANZ, Atlassian, AusPost, Defence, Qantas to share learnings at the AgileAus conference 2018. Ever wondered how the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) turned the marriage equality

Tom Burton: Canberra creates a brave new data world

By Tom Burton

Editors' Picks

It is hard to overstate the importance of the federal government’s decision to create a consumer right over the data created about them. Spurred by

Giant federal data integration project accepts 14 ways to improve privacy and security

By Stephen Easton

News

The federal government’s Multi-Agency Data Integration Project has gone through an independent privacy impact assessment, and the six big agencies involved have agreed to 14

Should family violence be considered a workplace issue?

By The Mandarin

Career Advice

Family and domestic violence is a significant and pernicious problem across Australia. Although its incidence brooks no boundaries of social status or class, women and children are

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