‘Uncertain times’ in Albo’s second week

The Coalition’s spectacular backflip on its promises to cut work from home for the public service and slash up to 41,000 bureaucrats gave the Prime Minister an easy win.

Instead, the Coalition would pursue job-cutting of public servants through natural attrition and other means, and not through forced redundancies.

WFH changes, widely panned by female voters, were also getting a rethink.

“Today, we have the extraordinary position of Peter Dutton, having defended his attack on working from home, now pretending that program won’t proceed,” Mr Albanese said in Melbourne on Monday.

“He said very clearly that women should just go...
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