The Latest Breaking News from Census

You’ve heard plenty of stories about young Australians without drivers licenses. A simple enough narrative it seems. Young people live in inner cities and We are more likely to be car owners now than we were 15 years ago.

Senators from opposite ends of politics united this week in cautioning against allowing Australians to self-identify as Indigenous.

Queensland recorded a net gain of 100,000 people moving from interstate in the past five years as Australians leave capital cities, Census data shows.

Australia’s mainstream media has long viewed refugees, migrants and Indigenous communities through a “deficit lens”. That’s where these populations – in all their glorious complexity – are framed simply as a “problem” that needs to be “fixed”. Never achieving enough. Never grateful enough. Just never quite deserving enough to be…