The ABC's 1985 Exercise

In the 1985 exercise, we needed to answer questions like this. We ended up creating datasets that had never previously existed. And we ended up helping the ABS revise in important ways. Data sets that have been around for quite a while. It probably helped us that one of the members of the team and indeed a fellow who very close colleague of mine, unfortunately now deceased. He was also a member key team member of this exercise. At an earlier time in his career, he spent 10 years as head of the input output section in Australian Bureau statistics. And he actually compiled Australia's first ever input output tables. Just extraordinary.