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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? (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why it should be there? I guess at this time no one give a f%&k about someones sexual orientation in Australia. And I fail to see any reason to register it for healthcare/taxation or similar purpose. IMHO questions of nationality should go away too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Data helps inform research and policy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

No-one really cares about the individuals, its moreso about the aggregate. I think it would be interesting from a public policy perspective to know how many LGBTQI+ people live in Australia, Capital Cities, "The Regions", areas of low/high socioeconomic standing. We could actually have informed debate about these issues. This is also a problem with nationality as well, I'm not bothered if my neighbour is a homosexual transgender from China, but if we find a majority of immigrants from a certain country or region are living in an area of low socioeconomic standing maybe that group are disadvantaged in some way. Maybe they need better language support or help finding a job. At the end of the day it's to give governments the opportunity to govern Australia in a way that is effective, or they can completely ignore it like the Liberals seem to.