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Albanese backs down over gender identity census question

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par Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has backed down to agree to the 2026 census including a question asking about a person’s sexuality.

Albanese said the Bureau of Statistics would test a question and if that went well, it would be included in the census. He said there would be “one question about sexuality, sexual preference”.

This was a “commonsense position”, he told the ABC on Friday morning.

The about-face follows a campaign by the LGBTQI lobby and criticism by a number of Labor backbenchers.

It also comes after ministers had dug in behind the…

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