Computer says no: Australian census shambles explanation depends on who you ask
by Elle Hunt from Technology | The Guardian on (#1Q15J)
Bureau of Statistics says it was an attack, Malcolm Turnbull says it was a 'confluence of events', engineers blame poor web infrastructure
Questions persist over the government's explanation for the failure of the census as the minister responsible scrambles to reassure Australians of the security of their data.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics shut down the census website on Tuesday night after hundreds of thousands of people attempting to complete the five-yearly snapshot received error messages.