[2] In February 2015, Kalisch spoke to The Australian newspaper, where he stated that the ABS needed more funding to upgrade its computer systems and software.

[4] Kalisch wrote an opinion column in Fairfax newspapers,[5] saying he had made the decision to enable the ABS to produce better statistics on economic and social outcomes.

Kalisch apologised on behalf of the Bureau for the outage, stating that the site had been subject to a "malicious" denial-of-service attack and had been taken down to prevent exfiltration of census data.

[14] At the end of his term on Thursday 28 November IPAA ACT hosted an event[15] where Kalisch delivered a keynote presentation called Leadership Learnings from the ABS: The Lows, The Highs and Everything in Between.

[16] Kalisch was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in November 2021 together with 36 others including the medical historian Catharine Coleborne, Nisvan Erkal, the linguist I Wayan Arka, and the anthropologist Lyn Parker.