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Katie Woolf spoke with Australian Bureau of Statistics Census Executive Director Andrew Henderson · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: We know that Census Night is back this year, the
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  Speaker 1: tenth of August. It's due to happen. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a pretty crucial night for all Australians and they're
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  Speaker 1: on the hunt for jobs basically well people to fill
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  Speaker 1: those positions. Joining us on the line to tell us
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about Census and some of these
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  Speaker 1: job opportunities for the Northern Territory as well. Australian Bureau
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  Speaker 1: of Statistics Census Executive Director Andrew Henderson, Good morning to you, Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Catie.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew. Firstly, tell us exactly when Census is happening and
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  Speaker 1: just what we need to be prepared for.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday, the tenth of August this year. So we'll be
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  Speaker 2: getting out to people all the information they need to
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  Speaker 2: be able to complete the census. In most cases Urban
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  Speaker 2: Darwin will be basically getting people to try and people
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  Speaker 2: to do it online. But will people have the old
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  Speaker 2: traditional option of a pay per form as well. So
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  Speaker 2: what you need to do is wait until you get
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  Speaker 2: the prompt from us and then just fill in your
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  Speaker 2: census form.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew, why is it so important that Australians take part
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  Speaker 1: in the censor and you know, make sure that that
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  Speaker 1: data is correct.
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  Speaker 2: Well cutie, a lot of people don't really think about
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  Speaker 2: the fact that you drop the kids off childcare, you
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  Speaker 2: take kids to school, you go to the local doc,
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  Speaker 2: to the local hospital. All those services are informed and
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  Speaker 2: shaped by census data. So it's not just the big
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  Speaker 2: stuff in terms of allocations of government money and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: but it's the day to day community services that we
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  Speaker 2: use are often driven by census data. So it's really
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  Speaker 2: important for people in their families to get in do
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  Speaker 2: the census so that we all get the services and
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  Speaker 2: have the infrastructure we need.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know that you're on the hunt for well
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  Speaker 1: lots of people to fill jobs. How many jobs do
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  Speaker 1: you need to fill in the territory.
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  Speaker 2: In the terity, we've got about twelve hundred temporary field jobs,
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  Speaker 2: so we've got about two hundred and fifty field managers
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  Speaker 2: and field offices in Darwen, we've got about fifty in
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  Speaker 2: a Darwin region about one hundred and eighty one. The
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  Speaker 2: field managers are basically our team leaders. They're the people
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  Speaker 2: on the ground who help us organize the field offices,
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  Speaker 2: the people to do the collecting, who do go out
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  Speaker 2: to support households. So those jobs are available right now,
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  Speaker 2: so we want people to get on and look into
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  Speaker 2: those jobs. Also got field officer jobs, so they're the
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  Speaker 2: people who build a traditional collection role. They go around
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  Speaker 2: helping people, reminding when they need to fill in the form,
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  Speaker 2: making sure they've got the materials they need to do before.
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  Speaker 2: And in Darwin in particular, we've got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: community field officers. They're people who will work with the
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  Speaker 2: Aboriginal torrest rate owning the community, make sure that they
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  Speaker 2: get the assistance they need to participate. They'll be going
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  Speaker 2: out to households, We'll be setting up some pop ups
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  Speaker 2: in different places where people can go and get assistance.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of different roles and offer If
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  Speaker 2: people are interested in a great opportunity to earn a
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  Speaker 2: bit of money do something for your community, all we
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  Speaker 2: need to do is go to our website, abs dot com,
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  Speaker 2: dot au, Forward Slash Careers or else just Google Serve,
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  Speaker 2: do a search on the web for censors jobs and
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  Speaker 2: you'll be able to find everything you need to know.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff. Well, I'll tell you what, Andrew, How busy
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  Speaker 1: are you guys trying to get prepared for the census?
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  Speaker 1: Is it a bit of a crazy time.
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  Speaker 2: It's some of my colleagues. I've done a few of these, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, look, the next five months of your
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  Speaker 2: life be gone. You can think about it. So we've
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  Speaker 2: been preparing for the last five years and it's showtime
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  Speaker 2: for us. So we're really a bit excited.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you are. It's like like Grand final week
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  Speaker 1: when you finally get there and then hoping that it
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  Speaker 1: all sort of runs as smoothly as possible. But as
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  Speaker 1: you pointed out, you know, I know that sometimes with
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  Speaker 1: this type of thing, people can kind of forget how
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  Speaker 1: important it is. But as you've said, it does shape
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  Speaker 1: you know, where some funding goes, and you know, and
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  Speaker 1: the ways in which we sort of deal with different
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  Speaker 1: things all around Australia. So it's incredibly important that we
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  Speaker 1: take part, it is, Katie.
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  Speaker 2: And the most important thing about it since it gives
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  Speaker 2: you that local view. So Darwin has specific needs, the
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  Speaker 2: territory has specific needs. Since is the way we define
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  Speaker 2: and shape that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well just give us that address once more, that
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  Speaker 1: website just in case there is anybody out there listening
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  Speaker 1: who's keen to take part and well basically maybe get
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  Speaker 1: one of these census jobs.
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  Speaker 2: ABS dot colve dot are you forward flash careers?
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, of course. Australian Bureau of Statistics Census
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  Speaker 1: Executive Director Andrew Henderson, thanks so much for your time today.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome, Katie,