The government is facing calls from its own MP's to reconsider leaving questions about sexuality and gender out of the next census. Labor had promised to start counting LGBT Australians as part of the national snapshot. It's now backing away from the move raising concerns the debate could be weaponised. The LGBT community has condemned the backflip and Labor MP Josh Burns says they should be counted.
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00:00We should reconsider the decision to formulate the questions in the next census.
00:09We should include people and we should include the LGBTIQ community.
00:13The idea that our existence and counting who we are is a threat to social cohesion is utterly
00:20absurd and deeply offensive.