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Speaker 1: Hey, do you know what I'm not going to miss?

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Speaker 1: The census. I mean, if there was anything that showed

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Speaker 1: how bad government can be at embracing technology, it was

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Speaker 1: the census, wasn't it. I mean, this is a time

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Speaker 1: where governments collect huge amounts of electronic data about you,

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Speaker 1: and then they asked you to fill out a paper

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Speaker 1: form and send it in and just tell them all

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Speaker 1: that stuff all over again. They already know what you're earning.

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Speaker 1: ID has that. They already know how many babies we're having,

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Speaker 1: how many of us are dying, how many of us

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Speaker 1: are getting hitched, birth deaths and marriages have that. They

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Speaker 1: already know how many of us are leaving the country,

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Speaker 1: how many of us are coming into the country. They

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Speaker 1: collect that too. They know how many one to three

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Speaker 1: bedroom houses are out there that's being collected. And yet

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Speaker 1: they were asking us to tell them that all over

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Speaker 1: again every five years. That made that all exercise a

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Speaker 1: giant waste of money, didn't it? When you think that

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Speaker 1: they already had the data and then they asked you

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Speaker 1: to repeat it. Wasn't that a giant waste of money?

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Speaker 1: The last one cost us three hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 1: million dollars the next one was going to cost US

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Speaker 1: four hundred million dollars. Now, I accept that there is

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Speaker 1: information that we will lose by scrapping the census, because

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Speaker 1: as far as I know, no government department collects information

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Speaker 1: on how many languages you speak, or what your sexuality is,

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Speaker 1: or what your first language is, or how many people

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Speaker 1: live in your house. We're not going to be able

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Speaker 1: to know that stuff is easily now, right, So I

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Speaker 1: accept that there will be some stuff that's incomplete. But

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Speaker 1: we already have an incomplete set of data, don't we,

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Speaker 1: because the huge numbers of us, because of rather the

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Speaker 1: huge numbers of us who haven't filled it in. In

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, we didn't count one in six kiwis. That's

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Speaker 1: not complete at all. So either way, we're not going

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Speaker 1: to know everything except one way was going to cost

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Speaker 1: US four hundred million dollars, wasn't it. Scrapping the census

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Speaker 1: was long overdue.

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