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The Turnbull government has finally responded to the recommendations of the Senate Economics Reference Committee which looked into the 2016 census debacle, saying that it would not accept making the submission of names voluntary through a legislative amendment.

If 2016 showed us one thing, it's that people can and will make stupid elementary IT mistakes. Here are just four, and how they could have been avoided.

A forecast by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that this year's census would see nearly two-thirds of households use the online form for data submission is proving to be wildly off the mark.