‘Outrageous’: Census Religion Question Fury

‘Outrageous’: Census religion question fury

Australians clashed online over privacy, religion and government trust as the census was carried out across the country last night.

‘Fighting’: Census question catching men out

As millions of households logged on to complete the national Census last night, a single question about domestic labour sent a grenade through living rooms across the country.

ABS designs tricky Census question about religion

The real number of those who declare they have no religion is 26 per cent, not the reported 39. The post ABS designs tricky Census question about religion appeared first on cairnsnews.org.

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Census: a question of religion

Everyone agrees the number means something. Nobody, in 115 years, thought to test whether the number was measuring what they assumed.

Census: a question of religion - Politics, Policy, Political Views

There is a particular kind of Australian argument that goes on for years without anyone thinking to check the equipment. For the past two decades we have been conducting one of these about religion. The Census says the proportion of Australians with no religion has climbed from under 1 per cent in 1911 to 38.9 per cent in 2021. Both sides have made a great deal of this number. Secularists cite it as proof that the churches are finished and shoul…