You forgot the last national census, where they decided our privacy was not that important[1], and they were liberally threatening everyone with severe fines if they didn't fill it out anyway.

So when the most predicable result on the planet happened and twenty million people all tried to fill out the online form on the "census" evening they claimed it was a denial of service attack.

The shame of it was, the ABS had a pretty good reputation up until that point (I believe). Now they're just another joke and have no good will left.

[1] And which today we discover they've cocked it up even more so. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/algorithm-flaw-meant-census-r...