Census meltdown played out in new FOI documents
Newly released Australian Bureau of Statistics documents show the chaos surrounding the 2016 census.
Tom McIlroy is a political reporter for Fairfax Media in the federal press gallery at Parliament House.
Newly released Australian Bureau of Statistics documents show the chaos surrounding the 2016 census.
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One Nation senator Brian Burston has called for a new "Patriotic Broadcasting Corporation" and restrictions on Islamic immigration.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has renewed attacks on Donald Trump, breaking with diplomatic tradition to call the Republic presidential nominee "entirely unsuitable" to be leader of the free world.
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