Tag: Deputy Prime Minister

Australia's Deputy Prime Minister, Richard Marles, has defended the government's decision to exclude questions related to gender, sexual orientation, and diverse sex characteristics from the upcoming census. The absence of such questions in the 2021 census had previously led the Australian Bureau of Statistics to issue an apology after LGBTQ+...

Former Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson has candidly discussed how his sexuality influenced his previous bids for the Labour Party leadership, recognising that his sexual orientation was an inhibiting factor in obtaining Party leadership. In 2013 and again in 2014, Robertson competed for the leadership position but was unsuccessful. Reflecting...