Questions on gender and sex variations ‘too complex’ for census, social services minister Amanda Rishworth says
by Amy Remeikis from World news | The Guardian on (#6QD0V)
It's the third explanation government ministers have given since last Sunday, while Coalition senator Andrew Bragg says questions are reasonable'
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The social services minister has offered up the latest explanation for why proposed questions on gender and sex variations were dumped from the next census, claiming they were too complicated.
In an interview with Sky News on Sunday, Amanda Rishworth gave a new reason for why new questions had been ditched from the census planning, saying the government had been shown questions that were very complex in the census".
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