{"id":30582,"date":"2016-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/byner-blasts-abs-over-census-excuses\/"},"modified":"2016-09-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T00:00:00","slug":"byner-blasts-abs-over-census-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/byner-blasts-abs-over-census-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Byner blasts ABS over census excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner has called the ABS \u201cabsolute fools\u201d after the department provided a string of lame excuses for Australia\u2019s disastrous census night.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cABS, you people are absolute fools,\u201d Leon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember all of the calls and the hoo-ha about the ABS and census night?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, the ABS has blamed the media for the failure of its census hotline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quoting an ABS statement, Leon said, \u201cBoth its call centres and automated paper form request service received more calls than expected &#8212; forcing it to implement call blocking\u2026 where callers were asked to call back later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt blames &#8212; listen to this &#8212; \u2018unexpected and unprompted media and social media focus on potential census fines\u2019 for which it hadn\u2019t planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is even better\u2026 Australia Post delivered letters informing people of the hotline \u2018more quickly\u2019 than it expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cABS, you people are absolute fools,\u201d Leon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public will just find all these comments totally disingenuous\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time you came on this program callers rang in to virtually say what was being said by you people was not what was happening on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leon echoed comments made by PM Turnbull\u2026 \u201cHeads will roll\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/adelaide-crows-gun-leaves-the-club\"><strong>ADELAIDE CROWS GUN LEAVES THE CLUB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/jeremy-cordeaux\/jeremy-s-awkward-moment-with-john-cleese\"><strong>JEREMY CORDEAUX INTERVIEWED HIS HERO &#8212; AND IT DIDN\u2019T GO TO PLAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner has called the ABS \u201cabsolute fools\u201d after the department provided a string of lame excuses for Australia\u2019s disastrous census night. \u201cABS, you people are absolute fools,\u201d Leon said. \u201cRemember all of the calls and the hoo-ha about the ABS and census night? \u201cWell, the ABS has blamed the media for the failure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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