Health research institutes say scrapping LGBTI+ questions from the 2026 census leaves Australia's 'invisible' populations at greater risk of harm
ABCExcluding LGBTI+ questions from the 2026 census would put these Australians at greater risk of "marginalisation and disadvantage", multiple leading health and research organisations have said. Earlier this week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the government had told the Australian Bureau of Statistics to cancel testing of the new census questions because they "weren't appropriate". Data needed to assess 'scope of the health crises' Dr Andy Kaladelfos, a senior lecturer in Criminology at UNSW and a co-convener of the Gendered Violence Research Network, said trans and gender-diverse people were also at heightened risk of "gender-based violence, sexual violence, hate crimes and other forms of violence". "Census data will tell us the size and the scope of the health crises affecting trans people in Australia," she said.
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