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Australian News@aussie.zone · 3 months ago

Questions on sexuality and gender have been cut from the 2026 census. Why are LGBTQI+ people saying it's an omission?

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Questions on sexuality and gender have been cut from the 2026 census. Why are LGBTQI+ people saying it's an omission?

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Australian News@aussie.zone · 3 months ago

The 2026 census won't count LGBTQIA+ people, but why?

Labor has moved to dump proposed questions that would create the first estimate of Australia's LGBTQIA+ population, with advocates saying it renders the community "invisible".

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Forget name/address. The info in the other questions is what was pissing me off. That’s enough to ID you.

It’s like browser fingerprinting
- NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.org
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  true that.

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