Albanese backflips on sexuality census question

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been forced into an embarrassing backflip over plans to exclude questions about sexuality from the next census, after a wave of protests including from senior Labor MPs . The government earlier this week pulled three new questions about sexuality orientation, gender identity and sexual variation from consideration for the 2026 census, which senior ministers argued would be divisive.

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