Australia's Census test run caters to culturally diverse communities

Census community engagement managers in shopping centres. Source: Supplied

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics says it has learnt from the 2016 online census outage, and is well prepared for the upcoming census trial run. Census Executive Director Andrew Henderson says the test run also includes better support for culturally diverse communities.

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