I welcome the announcement by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that a veteran identifier question is being considered for inclusion in the 2021 Census.
\nThis is an important initiative that will provide invaluable further information about Australia\u2019s veteran community.
\nVeterans\u2019 Affairs Ministers from across Australia recognised the importance of this issue at a Veterans Ministers\u2019 Round Table (VMRT) on 8 November 2017, unanimously agreeing to a motion that \u2018a question about veterans should be included in the next Australian Census\u2019.
\nThis call was reinforced at the 27 October 2018 VMRT, where Ministers recognised the need for robust data on veterans\u2019 issues and strongly endorsed the need for a veteran indicator to be included in the 2021 Census.
\nThe inclusion of this question will help in providing a definitive answer on how many veterans there are in Australia, and where they live.
\nThe Census data has the potential to help the Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs (DVA) and Ex-Service Organisations to better target and improve the services and support provided to veterans and their families \u2013 particularly the large proportion of veterans who are currently unknown to DVA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I welcome the announcement by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that a veteran identifier question is being considered for inclusion in the 2021 Census. This is an important initiative that will provide invaluable further information about Australia\u2019s veteran community. Veterans\u2019 Affairs Ministers from across Australia recognised the importance of this issue at a Veterans Ministers\u2019 … Continue reading “Census statement”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}