Census.

So...last week something rare happened at Frogknot...a car came down the drive unexpectedly.It was the Census Man dropping off our Census Form. We told him that we would be completing ours online. He headed off again back down the drive. (We suspect it was he who broke the gate thinking that it lifted up like a car park barrier rather than it swinging open.)Last night was Census Night. Every 5 years, on August 9th, the Government requires everyone to complete a Census Form. Interestingly the last time, in 2011, we were also here and visiting Deranie and Phoebe in Sydney and we had to be recorded on their form as visitors.Two thirds of people were expected to complete it online and people were asking whether the website could cope with all the traffic on the night. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) was confident it would be fine...of course it wasn't and the site crashed.We tried a few times to get onto the site to complete our form but couldn't so in the end we completed the paper copy dropped off by 'The Gate Wrecker!'Today the ABS is saying that the site was hacked but the Government is contradicting them and saying it wasn't. If it was hacked the rumours are that it was China getting their own back after Australian Swimmer Mack Horton called his Chinese rival, Sun Yang, a drug cheat.On Sunday while in Brisbane we had Sunday lunch at Wendy and Geoff's with Danny and Xiaoling. Xiaoling was telling me that Chinese people in Australia were 'p*%$ed' with the Olympic coverage here. Firstly Channel 7 went to a commercial break just as the Chinese athletes entered the arena at the opening ceremony and secondly a few days later showed the medal table but some bright spark had put the Chilean Flag up next to China.It seems the Census website was still offline at lunchtime today. People are worried because it has been widely mentioned that fines of up to $180 a day can be incurred by those people who fail to fill in the Census but we have until the 23rd September (Will's Birthday) to fill it in and fines will be incurred after that. Hopefully they can get it all sorted before then.Typical.