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The Census and Australian Bureau of Statistics websites have crashed on their most important day of the year [Census day for Australians], leaving Australians frustrated and unable to complete their form online. Many trying to log on to the Census and ABS sites were met with an error message on Tuesday evening saying the site could not be reached.
In a first, the census requires a full name to be filled in, though many including politicians are concerned about privacy issues. Crossbench senators including Nick Xenophon, Scott Ludlam and Sarah Hanson-Young are pledging not to comply with rules for the census will be treated like any other citizen and risk fines of $180 per day, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.
Some took to Twitter to slam the ABS, with one user sarcastically saying they were "definitely technically competent enough to keep our most private data safe."
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“ISIS did not exist before March 2003, before the American invasion of Iraq,” he told a Q&A audience in Adelaide on Monday night.
“As bad as Saddam Hussein was — and he was a brutal dictator — the US, in a botched strategy, a muddle-headed strategy, made a mess of things and it spawned sectarian violence. We have to avoid the mistakes of the past. We must deal with the existential threat that ISIS is to the West — but we must acknowledge that we cannot bomb our way out of this.
“We must acknowledge that ... what happened in Iraq was a bloody mess. We have to learn from that and unless we learn from it, we’re destined to repeat the same mistakes.”
Senator Xenophon said there had to be a political solution rather than a military one, as “what we have been doing to date has not been working — we’ve actually seemed to have strengthened ISIS and strengthened the terrorists.