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[–] 5 points 3 months ago

Much shorter term, the point of the census is to know where people are and what they need, so government spending can be done effectively. No point building hospitals/centrelink/etc in areas that don't need them.

Australian census records are (opt-in) deanonymised after 100 years, so there is some historical value.

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