Dutton says he is ‘fine’ with census sexuality question despite earlier attacking ‘woke agenda’

Peter Dutton had advocated for the census maintaining ‘the set of questions we’ve got at the moment’ which ‘stood us well as a country’. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images

Peter Dutton has said he is “fine” with gender and sexuality questions being in the census despite earlier attacking Labor for having a “woke agenda”.

The opposition leader said the government’s partial backflip on the questions was “weak leadership” and demonstrated a loss of control over the national agenda. Asked specifically about counting “LGBT Australians” in the census, Dutton said he was “fine with that, if the prime minister’s got a proposal”.