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$\"funny$ <\/p>\n

James Garth created the above questionnaire in response to those who complain that the question about religion in the Australian census were not detailed enough.<\/p>\n

Those recently-released census results<\/a> are interesting, with a large number of people self-identifying as having no religion.<\/p>\n

If you were answering the spoof census above, what box would you tick? What other options do you think should be on there?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"