He said IBM had paid a “very substantial” but confidential settlement which “absolutely” covered the cost of the census debacle. Turnbull said on Friday the census failure was “overwhelmingly” IBM’s. They’ve paid up. “They were being paid big money to deliver a particular service and they failed.”When asked how much IBM had paid in compensation, Turnbull said: “It is confidential, but it’s a lot of money.”Australian taxpayers paid nothing, he said. On Thursday, a separate report into the census failure was released by the Senate economics references committee.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2016 04:19 UTC