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From: "Anne or Gordon Major" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-SAGEN] [Fwd: Saving the 2006 Australian Census]
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:35:15 +1000
References: <3F169286.8020206@picknowl.com.au>


Hi Everyone,
I belong to the AIGS in Melbourne, and would urge you all to visit our web
site and download the form and send it off. We really do need to save
these censuses for future generations, as it is going to be more and more
difficult in the future to trace ancestors. You can make copies and give
them to friends and family members, the more the merrier!
Thanks
Anne - Melbourne


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ros" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:11 PM
Subject: [AUS-SAGEN] [Fwd: Saving the 2006 Australian Census]


> I am forwarding the following message regarding the 2006 Census.
> The message is - contact the ABS by July 31 - read on
> please.....................Ros
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Saving the 2006 Australian Census
> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:24:05 +1000
> From: "Pauline" <>
> To: <>
>
>
>
> It would be appreciated if you could post the following to your mailing
> list:-
>
> URGENT ! URGENT! SAVING THE 2006 AUSTRALIAN CENSUS - WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
> NOW!!!...CLICK HERE http://www.aigs.org.au/census2006.htm
>
>
> The next Australian census to be held in three years time is under threat
of
> destruction. You can help save it by emailing a letter supporting
retention
> by no later than 30 July 2003.
>
> The planning wheels are already turning at the Australian Bureau of
> Statistics (ABS) for Australia's next census to be held in August 2006.
And,
> it's going to cost Australian taxpayers some $350 million to conduct this
> survey. Yet it seems the ABS still intends to throw away our vital census
> history. This is in spite of a virtual referendum of the Australian people
> in the 2001 census, in which 53 percent of Australians (i.e. over 10
million
> of us) stated that we wanted our census records kept in the archives as
they
> do in most other western countries like England, Canada and the USA. The
> 2001 Australian census was the first national census retained in this
> country since 1828.
>
> In the face of this majority expression of public opinion and the
supporting
> expert testimony of over 300 medical, genetic, epidemiological, historical
> and genealogical witnesses to a national parliamentary inquiry in 1998,
the
> Acting Australian Statistician, A. W. EDWARDS released an information
paper
> on 2 July seeking the views of Australians on the next survey. He states
in
> this paper: "At this stage, there is no known requirement for retention of
> responses to occur for the 2006 Census."
>
> Please send off your email or letter TODAY and help us save Australia's
> history (see www.aigs.org.au for suggested letter format).
>
>
> NICK VINE HALL
> Chairman, Census Working Party, 1996-2003
> & Media Spokesman Record Preservation & Access,
> Australasian Federation of Family History Organizations Inc.
> PO Box 3012, Weston Creek, ACT 2611; Tel: 1 800 0 AFFHO (free call).
> Email:
> Save the Census Webpage Link: http://www.aigs.org.au/
>
>
>
>
>
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