After two weeks of backlash after dropping any gender/sexuality questions, Labor has gone back to its original plan: actually following its own policy platform.
Including LGBT people in the census helps provide valuable data to improve policy and service delivery to LGBT people.
While it's frustrating Labor showed willingness to drop LGBT at ease (and Albo's poor attempt at compromising by only including sexuality, not gender) it is at least good to show that enough public backlash can convince them to act better. Remember everyone: if enough people work together we can push the government into action.
Though intersex variations unfortunately still won't be included because the ABS deemed that to be too technically complex for high quality data to be gathered. The government said they'd work with the intersex community to figure out ways of gathering information in other ABS surveys. I hope they actually follow through with that so follow queer advocacy groups like Equality Australia to keep up to date with campaigns to push for better LGBTQIA+ policy so we know if they try and back out of that promise too.