Despite being told that the site is now operational, the ABS census site is still not accessible for many. The frustration felt by the public over the ABS’s failed census night has been exacerbated by extremely poor communication about highly technical matters.

Everything about the project suggested poor planning and...

We now find we’ve lost the art, which we had for a century, of running a census without a mega snafu. One can only imagine the fury that Malcolm Turnbull, who has been angry publicly, is unleashing in more private settings.

But while the census disaster is spectacular, quite a few other things are going poorly for the government. Indeed, the...

Poor Scott Morrison. Public policy storms don’t get more perfect than this. Nor are they generally quite as revealing of the increasingly complex environment in which policies are made these days.

The decision to reject ‘Chinese’ bids from Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings and State Grid for New South...