00:02The mainstream school system didn't work for Denise Cox's children, so she educates them at home.
00:07With home ed, it's great. There's so much flexibility. You can do a lot of hands-on learning outside of
00:11the home.
00:12So she was frustrated to see home education wasn't in the recent census.
00:17The only options being government, Catholic and non-government school.
00:21If the government are collecting stats to, I guess, get a snapshot of the population to then be able to
00:28better inform and make decisions on resourcing and things like funding, then why isn't home education represented on its own?
00:35The volunteer-run Home Education Network has long campaigned for inclusion in the census.
00:41Home education is growing.
00:42So if we gather accurate data about distribution of home educators and about the numbers of home educators, we can
00:50actually plan better to resource families.
00:53Ms McMaster says having the data would show the financial impact on families who home educate.
00:59That data is actually really important because we keep crying out for we need better resourcing.
01:06For some of them, they're losing an income to home educate and so their income is cut and then they're
01:14needing to purchase resources.
01:15So it can be incredibly difficult for a lot of families to manage.
01:19The Australian Bureau of Statistics looked at including home education in the recent census, but wasn't confident it would result
01:26in quality data.
01:27That's because during a test of potential changes to the census, not enough people selected home education.
01:34That's because of theseigen swabs that have been talked a lot later.
01:34It's the state of federal mixtillion this metaverse condition.
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