eCensus at Avondale: More than 7000 collectors travelling by bicycle or horseback conducted Australia’s first census in 1911. One hundred years later, the number of collectors has grown to more than 40,000, some of who even travel by helicopter to remote areas. Two of these 40,000 are from the residences on the Lake Macquarie campus of Avondale College of Higher Education. Loata Qarau and Brock Goodall issued eCensus forms to all on-campus students yesterday (Tuesday, August 9) as part of Get Counted, a State of Origin-type social pitting the residents of Andre, Ella Boyd and Watson Halls against each other.—Sonja Larsen Credit: Sonja Larsen.