The ministers accused the Coalition government of “playing politics” with the census after it was revealed in 2019 that LGBTIQ+ questions had been scrapped in the national survey after a Liberal minister “expressed a preference” about their potential inclusion.

The PM is facing the threat of being uninvited to the Sydney Mardi Gras and LGBTIQ+ people potentially boycotting the census over not honouring a commitment to allow them to declare their characteristics in the 2026 national survey.

The ministers accused the Coalition government of “playing politics” with the census after it was revealed in 2019 that LGBTIQ+ questions had been scrapped in the national survey after a Liberal minister “expressed a preference” about their potential inclusion.

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