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A top health bureaucrat who struggled to give the definition of a woman when questioned by a Liberal senator has finally given his answer two months later.
Health secretary Dr Brendan Murphy stumbled over his words when he was asked to define a woman by Liberal Senator Alex Antic during Senate Estimates in April.
'Perhaps to give a more fulsome answer, we should take that on notice,' he said.
Dr Murphy had remained silent on the topic since the hearing before finally giving his definition through a statement released by the Department of Health on Friday.
The definition runs for a lengthy 78 words and opens with the Department claiming it 'does not adopt a single definition'.
Health secretary Dr Brendan Murphy (pictured) stumbled over his words when he was asked to define a woman by Liberal Senator Alex Antic during Senate Estimates in April
Dr Murphy had remained silent on the topic since the hearing before finally giving his definition through a statement released by the Department of Health on Friday (stock image)
'The frameworks adopted to define a person's gender include chromosomal makeup... the gender assigned at birth… and the gender with which a person identifies,' the statement
