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Tonight is census night!
(www.abc.net.au)
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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I know someone who had a guest staying over at their home on census night. Not a tenant, not a life partner, not a family friend, just a guest. Apparently the questions the census asked about them were the same as if they were your wife or personal relative. Questions that are wildly inappropriate and invasive to ask your guest.
There was no way to just send a link so they can fill in their section privately online. Seems like an obvious feature to add. You have to just give them your device unlocked and hang around awkwardly hoping they don't mess with it, either that or roleplay as the secret police and begin the interrogation.
You can let them fill in the section for themselves if you trust each other not to look at each other's parts of the form, or they can click the button on the census page to create a new form.
They say that if they get two forms for the same person they will keep the most complete one
This is pretty good for privacy
It was a bit old fashioned on marriage though, you're only married for census purposes if it's registered, but there's no need to register a marriage now, you're treated the same everywhere it matters (a defacto spouse is treated like a spouse for medical purposes, for example)
I wonder why they don't want to know how many of the marriages are registered and how many are not.
So reading the ABS website they could have contacted the ABS to ask for a separate census form or should have filled it out prior to the 11th of August if they knew where they would be on the 11th.
You can find the information here.