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Prime Minister reverses sexuality question decision for 2026 census
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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8/30/2024
The government was facing a major backlash from within its own ranks and the LGBT community for not going ahead with plans to add questions about sexuality and gender.
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I think we're lucky to have a Prime Minister that's basing the decisions that he makes
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in government on evidence, and that he's been able to stand up and say, this is an issue
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for me to be tackling and for me to better understand, and he's made a good decision
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today and is putting the census for 2026 back on track.
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Back in 2020, well it was launched in 2021, the ABS actually released a set of variables
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to capture questions on sex, gender, variations of sex characteristics, and on sexual orientation.
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Now it's those questions that we've been working with in regards to providing advice to the
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advisory committee that the ABS has established to be looking at and testing.
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So they're not new questions per se, they have been potentially just tightened in some
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ways, but these are not new questions, they're questions that have been and are being used
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in a variety of settings.
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One thing I must make clear is we're still trying to understand what the statement from
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the Prime Minister means.
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A question on sexual orientation is just that, and the topics that are up for discussion
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and where we need to maintain and gain some clarity on is in relation also to gender and
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innate variations of sex characteristics.
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We need to understand where the Prime Minister is sitting at the moment and we're not quite clear.
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