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What's new about 2016's Census? How it would be more important to the Sydney Sinhala community.

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There are some major changes in the 2016 national census which Australians will complete on 9th of August. Aside from being the first digitally-focused census, there are changes to a key question and how personal information will be retained.President from Sydney Sinhala cultural Forum Mr; Saman Mahanama Dissanayake joined SBS Sinhalese program to reveal how this Census would be more important to the Sydney Sinhala community as a part of one of the biggest multilingual cities in Australia.



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