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Australian opposition withdraws election attack on public service workers
Australia's leader of the opposition Liberal Party, Peter Dutton refuels a car in Carrick, Tasmania, April 6, 2025
President hoped to give voters chance to decide on 8-hour work days and double pay for holiday work
AUSTRALIA’S opposition party today withdrew election promises to prevent public servants from working from home and to slash more than one-in-five federal public-sector jobs.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton announced his right-wing Liberal Party had dropped its pledge that public servants would be required to work in their offices five days a week except in exceptional circumstances.
Mr Dutton told Nine Network television: “I think we made a mistake in relation to this policy.
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