It is unclear whether the federal government will add expanded questions on gender identity and variations of sexual characteristics to the census, after it appeared to backflip on adding a question about sexuality.
The federal government has come under fire for reversing plans to expand questions about gender identity and sexuality in the census.
The revelation comes almost a week after the government quietly confirmed it would not include the questions in the next census, despite it forming part of Labor's national platform.A single question about sexuality doesn't encompass the LGBTQI+ community's complexity and diverse needs, experts and advocates say.
There was already an "identity-type question" asked in the previous census, he said, and that "there should be something included about sexual orientation as well".Since the start of the week, the government has offered up a range of explanations for why it told the ABS not to proceed with testing the expanded questions.
"We were presented, as a government, questions that were very complex in the census and the prime minister's been really clear … that we want people to complete the census and we want simple questions that people can understand and answer, and that's really important," she told Sky News. "The ABS were going to go out and test some questions on Monday … that's why we put a pause on that so that we could consider appropriate questions that were easily understood by people when they get the census," he said.
The following day, however, he said he was "fine" with the questions if the prime minister had a proposal.
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