Census meltdown the latest in a series of bungles

• ANALYSIS

'Reckless' doesn't begin to describe the culture at the top of the Bureau of Statistics.

Census 'no worse than Facebook': minister

The minister responsible for the Census has compared it to Facebook, saying concern about its ability to track people is "much ado about nothing".

Morrison softens super stance

Treasurer Scott Morrison has confirmed plans to water down some of the superannuation changes announced in the budget, but says he'll hold the line on the most important elements.

Not an identity document, but the census will help the bureau keep track

The next time you're surveyed by the Bureau of Statistics it'll know more about you than you think you've told it.

Banks respond to the Reserve Bank rate cut as one

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Our biggest banks move fast. Either that, or they collude. At 2.37 pm on Tuesday within minutes of the Reserve Bank cutting its cash rate to an all-time low, the Commonwealth Bank announced a completely different way of responding. Instead of passing on some of all of the cut, it would only pass on half and hand some of the rest out to customers as higher term deposit rates.

Banks short-change mortgage customers

The Commonwealth and National Australia Banks have short-changed their mortgage holders by passing on only a fraction of the Reserve Bank's 0.25 per cent cut in interest rates, choosing instead to reward depositors by lifting the rate they offer on term deposits.

Give us your names say the experts. We need the census to know about life expectancy

Until very recently the Bureau of Statistics had next to no idea how long Indigenous Australians lived.

Pay no attention to big coal. Wind power is doing just fine

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First it was dead birds, then noise. Now wind farms are being blamed for destroying the electricity market and pushing prices as high as $14,000 per megawatt hour.

Inflation plunge puts Reserve on standby to cut rates

Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens is considering cutting interest rates in one of his last acts in the job following news that Australia's official inflation rate has fallen to just 1 per cent.