A "fun" anecdote I heard was that every 1 day of outage of Centrelink's mainframe would result in 5-7 children with broken bones.
You see, some alcoholic high-strung fathers in rural communities were spending their welfare cheques mostly at the local bottleshop. If the cheques stopped, their booze supply stopped, and their withdrawal symptoms would send them into mad rage. All too often, they'd take it out on their kids.
Apparently someone at Centrelink was tracking this kind of stuff by gathering paediatric admissions data from hospitals.
While I was there they had a 3-day outage that everyone just laughed off. You do the maths.
A "fun" anecdote I heard was that every 1 day of outage of Centrelink's mainframe would result in 5-7 children with broken bones.
You see, some alcoholic high-strung fathers in rural communities were spending their welfare cheques mostly at the local bottleshop. If the cheques stopped, their booze supply stopped, and their withdrawal symptoms would send them into mad rage. All too often, they'd take it out on their kids.
Apparently someone at Centrelink was tracking this kind of stuff by gathering paediatric admissions data from hospitals.
While I was there they had a 3-day outage that everyone just laughed off. You do the maths.