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The Turnbull government's struggle to explain exactly went wrong in the Australian census intensified on Friday, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull forced to rebuke a senior minister's assertion that the alleged cyber attacks originated in Australia.
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The cyber attacks that sparked a deliberate shutdown of the Census website on Tuesday night appear to have been small-scale and likely carried out by ordinary "hacktivists" rather than sophisticated organisations or governments, experts and insiders say.
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Ordinary Australians are unlikely to ever be told the details behind these events. And there's another commonality too - if not a proved one. China.
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