Local Albanese reverses decision to exclude gender and sexuality from 2026 census The federal government has reversed its decision to exclude broader questions about gender and sexuality from the 2026 census.
News & Views What does family look like in Australia? It’s more diverse than you think Urging policy changes to better support different family types facing financial hardship and unequal childcare burdens.
Life Census shows (again) that women do more housework. Now is the time to invest in interventions We must redress the challenges of unpaid housework and the mental load on women’s physical, mental and economic health and well-being.
News & Views Australia: More millennial, more multilingual and less religious than last time India is now the third-largest birthplace of Australian residents behind Australia and England, while for the first time less than half of the population has identified as Christian, according to the census
News & Views The 2021 census renders LGBTIQ+ people invisible The lack of questions about sexual orientation, gender identity and variations of sex characteristics in the census has concerned LBGTIQ+ advocates.
News & Views Volunteers keep Australia moving, but their unpaid work won’t be explored in the Census For many Australians who spend chunks of their time volunteering, the Census will not ask details about the work they do.
