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A parliamentary panel will hold an inquiry into the failure of the Australian census website last month and also look at the privacy implications of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' new data policy.

There was a time when journalism and spin were two different things. These days, one serves as the willing servant of the other.

Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam is not resiling from his census day announcement that the Greens would introduce amendments when parliament returned "to ensure that people acting to protect their privacy in response to the census will not be fined, and to prevent the ABS from entrenching individual 'linkage keys' that track every citizen for their lifetime".