Got my letter in the mail today, doesn’t seem that long ago that we had the last one…
Census date is 11th of August if you haven’t gotten the letter yet.
I note they’re definitely trying to spread the load this time by highlighting you can do it as soon as you get the letter rather than waiting for the actual date. Smarter move - albeit less amusing - than everyone doing it on the night, crashing the servers, and the ABS claiming it was a DDoS attack (I mean most of the country accessing your server does fit the definition, but they asked for it).
Even it that service worked having people go online to request an offline form is a bit illogical, at least they claim to have a phone line you can request one with for those who can’t or won’t deal with the web form.
Government and logic are strangers.
The form online to request a paper census still requires you to use your phone number for verification, but I still see that as preferable to doing it online where I am expecting a 3rd party app for face verification, google chrome, windows 11, a blood sample, and a scan of every book in the house.