One of Canada’s most controversial exports — same-sex marriage — has led to a landmark change in Australia’s census after a lobbying effort by two Aussie men married in this country in 2006.

Australia’s 100th anniversary census, to be carried out Tuesday, will include a count of same-sex couples for the first time — despite the fact that gay marriage is not legal Down Under.

“After returning from Canada in 2006 to find that our marriage would not even be counted in that year’s census, we decided to fight for our rights,” Peter Furness, a spokesman for the group Australian Marriage Equality, said in a statement aimed at encouraging same-sex couples to take advantage of the new census rules.

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