And that's it for the census inquiry. What did we learn?
- all parties are very sorry for what happened on August 9 but insist someone else is to blame;
- IBM has blamed a subcontractor for a geoblock failure which is generally seen as the heart of the matter;
- IBM is also in talks with the federal government about paying for some of the cost of the debacle;
- the Australian Bureau of Statistics has promised to be more rigorous come the next census but has put the blame on IBM;
- the Prime Minister's cyber security tsar says IBM failed to deliver on its contractual obligations but that the ABS should have done more to check IBM's systems; and
- the former head of the ABS says the whole thing was embarrassing, especially the public information campaign.
Good times.
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