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The Body Shop has partnered with Just.Equal Australia in a joint campaign to ensure LGBTIQA+ people are counted in the 2026 Australian Census. There will be information about counting LGBTIQA+ people in the Census and a QR code linked to the Just.Equal petition about Census inclusion in all Body Shop stores across Australia from February […]
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27 Feb 2023 /
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SBS has launched a new interactive tool inviting all Australians to explore the 2021 Census results in eight different languages, extending the reach of the national snapshot to multilingual communities across Australia. Alongside English, the SBS Australian Census Explorer is available for the first time in Arabic, Greek, Italian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, […]
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10 Jul 2022 |
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As millions of Australians log on to complete the 2021 census debate over one of the questions has amped up. What is your religion? Every Australian census has asked questions about what our religious beliefs are, but over the years the way the question has been presented has been updated to reflect our changing community […]
Tags: andrew denton, anthony fisher, Census, Margaret Court, Michael Sukkar, no religion, Tim Minchin
10 Aug 2021 |
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just.equal Australia has welcomed support from Shadow Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones for counting LGBTIQA+ people in the Census. Jones, whose portfolio covers the Bureau of Statistics and the Census, made the comment following a call from just.equal Australia on Friday for Labor to reveal its policy on the issue. Labor’s stance contrasts with the Federal […]
Tags: Census, charlie burton, just.equal, Labor, stephen jones
9 Aug 2021 |
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Equality advocates want a commitment from Labor to counting LGBTIQA+ Australians in the 2026 Census. just.equal Australia has written to Labor’s shadow assistant treasurer, Stephen Jones, asking for Labor’s position and seeking a commitment to questions about sexual orientation, gender identity and variations of sex characteristics. The national advocacy group has partnered with a number […]
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6 Aug 2021 |
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LGBTIQ+ Health Australia are holding an online forum about the upcoming Australian census, and how people in the LGBTIQ+ communities can make sure information about their lives is effectively included in the next census in 2026. The event will feature two guest speakers from the ABS who will discuss the importance of the census, […]
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1 Aug 2021 |
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Equality advocates have launched a declaration that condemns the upcoming Australian Census for excluding LGBTQIA+ Australians. just.equal Australia’s declaration, which has already been co-signed by a number of Australian LGBTIQ+ community organisations, says the national Census on August 10th will perpetuate the invisibility of LGBTIQA+ people and make it harder to address the needs of […]
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30 Jul 2021 |
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Leisa Goddard says high school students are identifying as cats Journalist and PR expert Leisa Goddard raised concern about proposed changes to the next census from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), noting that she’s aware of high school students who identify as felines. The ABS had made a recommendation that a greater number of […]
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15 May 2021 |
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has clarified that no questions about gender identity will be asked in the upcoming national census. The questions and topics for the 2021 census were announced in November 2020, but recently there has been a flurry of media reports, talkback radio discussion and media commentary on the topic, triggered […]
Tags: Census, Rita Panahi, SKY News
15 May 2021 |
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National LGBTIQ+ advocates have welcomed the new guidelines from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) regarding data collection on sex, gender, sexual orientation and variations of sex characteristics. Formerly named the Sex and Gender Standard, the new document expands the scope to include Sex, Gender, Variation of Sex Characteristics and Sexual Orientation Variables. LGBTIQ+ Health […]
Tags: ABS, Census, just.equal, lgbtiq+ health australia, nicky bath, Rodney Croome
14 Jan 2021 |
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