Laurie4b Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 http://www.infowars.com/86240/ I followed some links to this site so don't know if it's legitimate or not. Are people really required to answer personal questions about their sex lives or answer potentially dangerous questions about when family members will be home alone or face jail time? If this is true, are Australians up in arms about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishMum Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Wow! I hadn't heard anything about this. It must be true, Today Tonight is a real show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 I've never heard of it, but I live on a hill by myself with no television. I vote that it can't be true because if it was, my mum would have pasted annoying FB memes on my wall about it. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishMum Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 I've never heard of it, but I live on a hill by myself with no television. I vote that it can't be true because if it was, my mum would have pasted annoying FB memes on my wall about it. :D LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahW Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 If the only people talking about this is infowars.com Then it is a bunch of baloney Easy-peasy. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Wow! I hadn't heard anything about this. It must be true, Today Tonight is a real show. Technically it's a real show ;), they do like to be controversial and gossipy. So, I wouldn't necessarily trust that this is exactly the way it has been represented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishMum Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Technically it's a real show ;), they do like to be controversial and gossipy. So, I wouldn't necessarily trust that this is exactly the way it has been represented. I fall for everything! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 I'm looking through the Bureau of Statistics website and can find nothing about those kinds of personal questions. Not that I suppose they would publish them there if they did. Further poking around online suggests there are intrusive questions asked that are compulsory to answer, as a former senator's mother got caught up in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie4b Posted June 22, 2013 Author Share Posted June 22, 2013 I have no idea whether the infowars site was good or not, so thanks for the head up. I'll be interested on what you can/can't find from more legitimate sources then. (Every so often, one of the tabloids gets something right first.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewingmama Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 I have no idea but I do know an identical thing happened to me when I lived in Canada. Some survey taker knocked on my door (a woman) and asked me all these incredibly private sex questions. I was newlywed...as in a few weeks and new in the country. I was flabbaghasted. I think the woman had issues with boundaries. After asking all these intrusive questions she criticised our lounge furniture and told me it was time to update all the old fashioned stuff. As I said....we were newly weds and just setting up our home....a lot of the furniture was hand me downs from family. Yeah it was outdated but who comes into a strangers home and says that?? Anyway I was young and easily intimidated and in a new country where I didn't know what was normal....so I suffered through it. If the same thing happened to me today I'd kick them to the curb. Today tonight is a dodgy show at best.....they hype everything so the truth of it is probably mixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 I have never heard about it, and I doubt it is true. I never watch today tonight. They tend to make up stories ~ or at least wildly exaggerate to get their ratings up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeneralMom Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Today Tonight is dodgy. I've been here for a year and no one has ever mentioned it to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deee Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 This is a beat up. Today Tonight is a nasty, ratings driven program with poor journalistic ethics. Real ambulance chasing stuff. Alan Jones is a nasty right-wing bigot who likes to think he has the power to bring down governments. Mind you, if you had a perverse sense of humour, you could have great fun with someone who came to the door asking about your sex life! D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishMum Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Mind you, if you had a perverse sense of humour, you could have great fun with someone who came to the door asking about your sex life! D :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeterbug Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 If you follow the link through to the ABS, there is no mention of those types of questions or jail time. Today Tonight is tabloid tv. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AurieD Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Actually, the ABS can legally compel those it has selected to participate in surveys some of which ask highly personal questions (such as the health survey). Most Aussies probably don't realise this as relative few get selected for these kind of surveys. Whether they actually do it or not I don't know, but they do have the power. That website linked is definitely exaggerated and sensationalistic though. Edited for Reference: http://www.abs.gov.a...5b!OpenDocument "Question 2: Is the survey compulsory? Answer: All ABS surveys are conducted under the authority of the Census and Statistics Act 1905. Initially you are being requested to answer the questions, but if the Australian Statistician directs you in writing to provide the information, you are legally obliged to do so." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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