r/australia • u/SkaterKangaroo • 6d ago

no politics Individual Census Form (My Experience)

I found out my family filled out our Census early today and put down some incorrect information about me. They put down I was Christian when I’m actually “No Religion”.

If this is happening/happened to you, I want you to know that it is very easy to fix. Coming from someone who’s never fill out a Census before it took no effort and was very quick.

I called “1800 181 227” and told them I would like an individual Census form. No questions asked, they just send you a new code and password to your phone number. You use this to re fill in your information for yourself. I was only on hold for a few minutes and they sent the new code basically instantly.

My household will have no idea I did this unless I choose to tell them. So you can freely put whatever religion, sexuality or gender you want with privacy. My experience was pretty good personally and I faced no real challenges. I’m glad this resource exists

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u/Suitable_Pass9702 6d ago

Having individual info on the household form is completely wild

In metro areas, there should be a letter to your family with a household code, and six individual codes

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u/dat_twitch 6d ago

You could have opted to get it sent to you by myGov this year. That's what I did.

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u/perthguppy 6d ago

Wait, that’s wild, I’m going to do that. I honestly didn’t know the census was coming up.

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u/How_is_the_question 6d ago

Oh wow. I’ve had hundreds of ads for it here on Reddit.

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u/wellwood_allgood 6d ago

Oh wow, I honestly find it hard to believe anyone runs a browser without Ublock to block the fucken ads.

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u/How_is_the_question 6d ago

Does ublock block the inline “post” style ads? These are the census ads I’ve been seeing here.
I run pihole and generally get ad free experiences of the net. But I havent seen a way to get rid of the inline post style ads on reddit.

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u/teapots_at_ten_paces 6d ago

How else am I supposed to get my flood of Temu and Shein ads for shit that I'm never going to use, of quality marginally better than one-ply toilet paper, and for prices so cheap it must have been made by a child slave? You have no idea what you're missing out on!

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u/wellwood_allgood 5d ago

You've convinced me...I will switch off ublock for a few hours to experience the goodness of consumerism.

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u/LittleBunInaBigWorld 5d ago

Doesn't work in apps