Opinion
The once-great ABS is brought to its knees
Verona BurgessGovernment Business ColumnistAs the Australian Statistician, David Kalisch, surveys the wreckage of trust in the census and perhaps his own career, the image of yet another once-inviolable public institution brought to its knees is shocking in Canberra.
Continuing budget cuts aside, the long-running battle over the independence of the Australian Bureau of Statistics was illustrated clearly in the Australian Public Service Commission's capability review released in December 2014 – the month Kalisch was appointed – but conducted almost a year earlier.
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