Religious groups had “strong desire” to keep Census religion question, says ABS | Rationalist Society of Australia

Religious groups had “strong desire” to keep Census religion question, says ABS | Rationalist Society of Australia

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has defended its decision to continue using a biased question on religious affiliation in the Census, saying that providing religious organisations with comparable data was “a significant enough consideration” to keep the question. In a letter to the Rationalist Society of Australia, the Australian Statistician, Dr David Gruen, said