00:00The Census is an important tool to be able to collect data and data feeds better government
00:06decision-making. And I think in order to ensure that people are included in that data, we
00:13should be asking questions to reflect the depth and breadth of the Australian community.
00:17And one of the things that I'm so proud of is to be a representative where we have such
00:22a large LGBTIQ community. And I don't want to exclude them. I mean, I want to include
00:26them. I think it's really important that people in Australia are welcomed and are included
00:31in the way in which government operates and government is there for all Australians.
00:35Obviously we've seen really destructive campaigns run against minority communities and unfortunately
00:41the LGBTIQ community seems to be at the forefront of it often. I don't have any place for that
00:48sort of divisive politics. We saw it, frankly, we saw it during the marriage equality debate,
00:52we saw it during Scott Morrison's religious discrimination debate, where people tried
00:56to twist issues that should have been about treating people with respect and not allowing
01:01for discrimination and twisting it into really nasty and personal attacks against people.
01:06So I think, Greg, that obviously we don't want to see people being used as a political
01:17football and there are always going to be bad faith actors who are trying to use these
01:22issues to divide people and to try and use minority communities as some sort of political
01:29tool. But I also think that in government we can show strength and we can show courage
01:34and we can include people in the way in which we govern this country and that is what the
01:39Labor Party, that I am proud to be a part of, does when we are at our best.
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