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The attacks are misguided: in a time of crisis the Bureau of Statistics is serving us well

  • Written by Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne

In critical times, we expect our public institutions to step up. Inevitably, we are going to judge them, as we should, because it is important that they get decisions right.

But judgements about an institution have to be based on an informed understanding of what it is doing; and what are the right and wrong ways for it to go about its job.

The attacks are misguided: in a time of crisis the Bureau of Statistics is serving us well

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