Australians who fail to complete census due to outage won't be fined, government says

By Latika Bourke
Updated August 10 2016 - 9:13am, first published 9:02am
An error message seen when trying to submit the census. Photo: Liam Phillips
An error message seen when trying to submit the census. Photo: Liam Phillips

Australians who failed to fill out the census because of the hours-long website outage will not be fined, and have until September 23 to complete the survey, the federal government says.

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