Will the census ask if you're a homo?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-30/albanese-says-question-on-sexuality-will-...Albanese backs down on decision to exclude LGBT question
from next census after Labor MPs revolt
By political reporter Jake Evans
Topic:LGBT
12h ago
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says a new question on sexuality will be tested for the next census,
overturning a decision earlier this week not to add a question to include LGBT Australians in the national survey.
Mr Albanese told ABC Radio Melbourne it was a "commonsense position" to put a question.
"We've been talking with the Australian Bureau of Statistics and they are going to test for a new question, one on sexuality," he said.
"There will [be a question] as long as the testing goes well."
The Greens have vowed to pursue the issue when parliament returns next month, saying they will attempt to force a vote in parliament to also include questions on diverse gender identities and sex characteristics, unless the government commits to doing so.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who earlier in the week described the questions as a "woke agenda" and said the existing questions had "stood us well as a country," on Friday said he was "fine" with new questions if the government mounted an argument, but said Mr Albanese was "all over the shop".
"One day he says to the group of people he's meeting with that he's going to change the questions in the census... The next day he says that he's not going to do that. Now he says that he is going to do that."We've got a weak prime minister who doesn't know what he believes in, he tells different audiences different things and then of course he tries to reconcile it."