[manicdee]

The younger generation are more gullible, lacking awareness of data security, oblivious to data sovereignty, and easily distracted by squirrels.

An Australian census is never going to take place in hardware controlled by a foreign national on foreign soil, especially not in a country where cloud servers have been seized in the past for simply having the possibility of containing data associated with a person associated with a crime.

One thing you will learn as you gain real world experience is that there is no such thing as "too paranoid" when it comes to IT projects handling sensitive data.