In dire straits after #CensusFail, ABS to axe up to 150 staff

After the collapse of Australia's Census on August 9, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told radio shock-jock Alan Jones “Lots of people are trying to find out who to blame and what heads should roll” at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). And now we know that the first heads to roll will be rank and file staff, at least …

[AnthonyP69]

Whos fault is it?

It should be the minister that oversees the funding of the agency.

Slashing IT jobs as cost savings only makes it harder to understand what the out source service is doing.

When outsourcing the IT staff you need to retain are generally higher skilled and come at a high price.

[Fred Pilcher]

Liberal Party Policies #573,248: Punish the innocent.

[Anonymous Coward]

Indeed, some of those workers probably came by boat!!!

- Pauline

[Anonymous Coward]

As did the convicts and many early settlers…

[Denarius]

Reply to post: In dire straits after #CensusFail, ABS to axe up to 150 staff

we all came by boat at some stage. Even in ice ages there is deep water NW of Sahulland.

[Winkypop]

Hi, we're from HR. Your boss stuffed up big time

So we are making you redundant.

Here's a box.

[Anonymous Coward]

They can't figure out who's to blame…

…so they're using the Monte Carlo method of approximation to decide who should stay and who should go?

[DeathSquid]

Why does that muppet David Kalisch still have a job? He oozes ineptitude and incompetence. His whopping $700k salary could be used instead to head off quite a few redundancies, methinks.