Australian Bureau of Statistics
Mood:  surprised
Topic: Australian Bureau of Stat
It seems that in some parts of NSW the Australian Bureau of Statistics have been cooking the books in regards to Australian Statistics. In both the 1996 and 2001 surveys of private boarding schools who received ABS forms allowed students to sex up by writing inaccurate personal details which lead to increased funding for the Private schools and less funding for public schools. one source revealed that "the school does not care what i write , i just pretended to be a 65 year old grandmother, its not like the school going to read what i wrote because its invasion of privacy". In addition in one instance a unnamed city in Sydney saw its popluation fall from 145,000 to 140,000. However its true population is over 150,000 meaning less funds for the local council which is distributed by the commonwealth government