2006 Census: Media Centre
 

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    Statement by the Head of Census - Indigenous communities are being counted.


    National media releases

    By month of release:

    August 2006

    29/08/2006 - ABS issues Notices of Direction to fill in Census forms
    22/08/2006 - Census collection - on track and to finish soon
    17/08/2006 - IBM application and hosting expertise helps ABS build the big picture faster with eCensus program, (cat. no. 2903.0)
    15/08/2006 - ABS informs police of bogus Census Collectors, (cat. no. 2903.0)
    10/08/2006 - Census Inquiry Service doing the job, (cat. no. 2903.0)
    09/08/2006 - Australia embraces the eCensus, (cat. no. 2903.0)
    09/08/2006 - Census has not forgotten Palm Island, (cat. no. 2903.0)
    09/08/2006 - Census off to a great start, (cat. no. 2903.0)
    08/08/2006 - Protecting your online Census information begins at home, (cat. no. 2903.0)
    08/08/2006 - Tonight is Census Night, (cat. no. 2903.0)
    07/08/2006 - Census forms still being delivered, (cat. no. 2903.0)
    04/08/2006 - eCensus brings Antarctica closer, (cat. no. 2903.0)
    03/08/2006 - Visit to ABS Census Team by the Governor-General, (cat. no. 2903.0 )
    01/08/2006 - ABS works actively with Indigenous Australians on 2006 Census, (cat. no. 2903.0)
    01/08/2006 - Building a picture of Australia's cultural wealth, (cat. no. 2903.0)

    July 2006
    31/07/2006 - Everybody counts - Census includes the homeless (Media Release), (cat. no. 2903.0)
    28/07/2006 - Aussie organisations rally behind the Census (Media Release), (cat. no. 2903.0)
    24/07/2006 - National launch puts spotlight on the Census (Media Release) (cat. no. 2903.0)
    17/07/2006 - Conference highlights value of Census data (Media Release) (cat. no. 2903.0)
    14/07/2006 - Improving Access To The Census (Media Release) (cat. no. 2903.0)
    14/07/2006 - TV Presenter Ernie Dingo to Feature in 2006 Census Advertising (cat. no. 2903.0)
    10/07/2006 - One month to go (Media Release) (cat. no. 2903.0)


    June 2006

    30/06/2006 - Improving Access To The Census (cat. no. 2903.0)
    08/06/2006 - 2 Months to go until the Census of Population and Housing on 8 August 2006 (cat. no. 2903.0)
    08/06/2006 - ABS releases progress report on Census Data Enhancement (cat. no. 2903.0)

    May 2006

    29/05/2006 -     Census's role in the official recognition of Indigenous people (cat. no. 2903.0)
    16/05/2006 - ABS stands by Census homeless count (cat. no. 2903.0)


    April 2006

    06/04/2006 - 2006 Census to Recruit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collectors (cat. no. 2903.0)
    06/04/2006 - 2006 Census to Recruit Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Collectors (cat. no. 2903.0)
    06/04/2006 - Census Collector recruitment opens on Saturday (cat. no. 2903.0)


    March 2006

    21/03/2006 - Making Australia's Communities Count (cat. no. 2903.0)
    08/03/2006 - 5 months to go until the Census of Population and Housing on 8 August 2006 (cat. no. 2903.0)
    03/03/2006 - Census recruitment period extended (cat. no. 2903.0)


    February 2006

    15/02/2006 - Census recruitment launched (cat. no. 2903.0)
    13/02/2006 - Census recruitment launched: 30,000 jobs to be filled (cat. no. 2903.0)
    06/02/2006 - CensusAtSchool (cat. no. 2903.0)


    January 2006

    06/01/2006 - 7 months to go (cat. no. 2903.0)


    Return to 2006 Census Media Centre (cat. no. 2903.0)