Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
You can't choose between right and wrong by taking a census.
At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.
We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are most Americans.
Right and wrong are not the product of census.
Its often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.
