After the Australian government’s unprecedented intervention into the national census, the Australian statistical office will need to do significant work rebuilding the nation’s trust. After about two ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will include questions on sexual orientation and gender in its census for the first time, after more than a week of controversy over the centre-left Labor government's ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed its Census Topics for next year, and will ask Australians aged over 16 years about their sex recorded at birth and gender. The gender question ...

Anthony Albanese has recently backflipped on proposed inclusions of questions regarding gender and sex in a move that risks rendering a swathe of Australia’s LGBTQI+ community invisible in the next ...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics will roll out a large-scale census test next month. About 60,000 households will take part across the country to stress test the bureau’s collection processes and ...

Nicholas Biddle is a member the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian Statistics Advisory Council. August 2026 may seem like a long way away. Between now and then, there will be at least one ...

The ABS allegedly recommends kids of same-sex parents fill out the 'mother' and 'father' sections of the census, despite being inaccurate. Credit: ullstein bild via Getty Images Australians are ...

Amrita Malhi has received an Innovation Connections grant from the Department of Industry, Science, Energy, and Resources to test the assumptions embedded within a tool designed for collecting data on ...

Major changes will be made in next year’s Census, with the national survey to collect new information on Australians. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed its Census Topics for next year ...

Australia’s Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced on Saturday that the 2026 national census will, for the first time, include questions regarding gender and sexual orientation. This decision marks a ...