1800 fine for not filling out census forms with correct answers

[colic2bullsgirlore]

If they already know the "correct" answers they require why the flying truck are they asking me????

Spoiler

[imastawka]

What?      My name is The Resident?

I took a screenie of MSN news.

They say you have until Sept 18th to do the paper one, and the 23rd to do it on-line.

So I'll do it at my leisure.     Ta very much

[debra9275]

[debra9275]

I don't think we'll even bother trying tonight

 Freddie, I bet you're not the only ones that happened to

She-ele.. the name "resident'  is pretty popular    

[colic2bullsgirlore]

Australian law (privacy act) does nopt require any company or an entity to divulge that their site has been hacked.

The ABS did not immediately notify us that their site had been hacked (DOS) denial of service attack.

In fact the ABS tried to reassure the us that it was a glitch. ie they lied

Before I submit any form online(or vote for that matter) I am going to need alaw that requires mandatory reporting of cyber attacks or attempted cyber attacks

some background on the link

http:/

/benjamin-ig.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Article-3-Weve-Been-Hacked-What-Do-We-Do-2015-March.pdf

[colic2bullsgirlore]

There is no law that requires the ATO to notify a taxpayer that their details may have been compromised online

4 dos attacks last night

did you hear anything ie a warning from the ABS after the first one, or the second one. or the third one or immediately after the fourth one..... or. was the message you got on your computer to "maaaaate it's all apples... just keep on trying" the only message you recieved from the ABS???

[debra9275]

http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&list=0&time=17022&view=map

no digital attacks to Australia yesterday

[davidc4430]

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

David have you got a spare form with a unique number I can have? 

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i live in a small coastal town, every second home is a holiday house so there are hundreds of the forms, the full paper fill out forms, sitting on doorsteps everywhere.

made me wonder what would stop someone gathering up dozens of them and filling them out with all sorts of crazy answers.

[lind9650]

We received our forms with an reply paid envelope last week by a person. She was suposed to collect them yesterday. If she does not come today, I will post the forms.

The address for Victoria is;   Australian Bureau of Statistics

                                                       2016 Census

                                                  Locked Bag 1425

                                          DANDENONG SOUTH, VIC. 3164

Erica

[davidc4430]

yep, all the ones left here came with the preaddressed envolopes. i did mine and posted it this morning. i didnt even bother trying to do it online as my computers old and i heard on radio older computers would possible have problems.

[englishrosegardens]

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

What annoys me is that they keep saying that your information is safe and there will be no cross referencing with other government agencies but they will fine you $180 per day if you do not provide the correct information.

How do they know the information is not correct if they have not cross referenced it?

I am also concerned that all identifying information is going to be kept...in previous years it was destroyed as soon as the data had been entered.

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It would seem that they've been lying to us for years because identifying data was kept the whole time, but we were told it was only kept long enough for them to know that we'd actually filled out the forms.  They've also been linking personal data to other data sources so where will it end, and why bother to do a census at all if they already have so much information available to them?

Have a read of this article:  http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/census-without-your-names-we-wont-know-how-lon...

and this one:  http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/census-meltdown-just-the-latest-bureau-of-s...

They may only keep our names for four years but the information links will be there forever, which means they can easily get our names again if they want to, just as the US used census statistics to round up all its Japanese citizens in WW2, but never admitted this until recent years.