The eCensus

It’s census time in Australia and for the first time this year, you can complete the census online. Surprisingly, the eCensus is actually very well done. It supports Windows 95 and above and Mac OS 8.5 and above on IE, Netscape or Firefox – and that’s just the official specs. I didn’t think to run it through the HTML validator but I’d assume it would work quite well in pretty much any reasonably modern browser and a whole bunch of not so modern browsers.

What’s more, the form was simple, straight-forward and had a clean, clear design. All up it took me about 10 minutes to complete the census online. Sadly, I still need to fight the Australian Tax Office’s Windows-only, fully standalone eTax program, for which none of the above praise applies.