Prominent backbencher Josh Burns has become the first Labor MP to publicly call for the government to reverse its call on LGBTQ census questions.
Prominent backbencher Josh Burns has become the first Labor MP to publicly call for the government tofrom the census, as more backbenchers grumble in private and three conservative coalition MPs said counting LGBT Australians would not bother them.
Several government sources, who requested anonymity to express frank views, said Burns was far from the only Labor MP confused by the claim, made by ministers Richard Marles and Jim Chalmers, that changing the census would have led to “nasty” and “divisive” debate.
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Dr Anna Cody on Thursday wrote to assistant treasury minister, Andrew Leigh, saying the decision would have “serious implications for the health, wellbeing and general equality of LGBTIQA+ Australians and their families”. – despite a push from the LGBTQ community and the ABS conducting significant research on the issue – because it wanted to avoid a “divisive debate”.
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