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Robyn S's avatar

https://explore.data.abs.gov.au/vis?tm=births&pg=0&df[ds]=ABS_ABS_TOPICS&df[id]=BIRTHS_MONTH_OCCURRENCE&df[ag]=ABS&df[vs]=1.0.0&hc[Measure]=Births&pd=1975%2C&dq=1..AUS.A&ly[cl]=TIME_PERIOD&ly[rw]=MONTH_OCCUR

I don't think they go back and update this spreadsheet because the total numbers don't match ANY of the final yearly numbers compared to the previous link I posted. In fact, in 2014, the above link here has a total of 307,753.

In the Annual births for 2014 in the previous link I posted (here it is again for people to view: https://explore.data.abs.gov.au/vis?tm=births&pg=0&df[ds]=ABS_ABS_TOPICS&df[id]=BIRTHS_SUMMARY&df[ag]=ABS&df[vs]=1.0.0&hc[Measure]=Births&pd=1975%2C&dq=1.AUS.A&ly[cl]=TIME_PERIOD ) it's 299,697.

So what happened to those 8K people...?

I think someone had better write to the ABS again asking why these figures, after all these years, are STILL not up to date?!?!

How are we meant to know which one is right?! Or are they ALL wrong?!

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Dr Linda's avatar

Thank you, you fave done an amazing job pointing out the inconsistency of all of this. It’s a good reminder that it’s too easy to jump off the deep-end.

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Ivo Bakota's avatar

Senator Rennick is on the case. Explanation has been taken “on notice” by the Heath Department. So somewhere between now and never, we’ll get an answer.

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Robyn S's avatar

Indeed!! He seems to have a lot of his very good Qs taken 'on notice' and yet no-one ever seems to follow that up, do they? It's like the person being grilled thinks "If I answer SOME of the easier Qs, then I can say I'll take some of the more difficult Qs 'on notice' and then I don't have to answer them at all!"

Parliament is a joke, it really is. And Penny Wong just recently called Rennick a 'coward' and repeated it before retracting it.

I say put all the pollies in the schoolyard where they belong. Pick out 5 decent ones to do the job (that's about all there is on the federal level) and leave the rest to throw rocks at eachother.

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