Commentary Every five years, Australians complete the Census survey to give governments the information needed to make essential decisions about services. Plans for providing for schools, transport, infrastructure, healthcare, and local community services all depend upon obtaining the most accurate possible “snapshot” of the nation. Since it was first conducted in 1911, the Australian Census has largely been an uncontroversial exercise in gathering population data. Householders record answers to questions, return the completed form and don’t think much more about it until the results are released the following year. However, in recent times, this data gathering has been weaponised by secular activists such as Meredith Doig, president of the Rationalist Society Australia. The rationalist movement has been so hell-bent on driving religion out of Australia that they are even turned to Satanists to bolster their case for banishing so-called “superstition” and “deception” from our fair land. But in doing so, …