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Episode: Australian conservatives withdraw campaign pledge to stop remote work for public employees
Description: Australia’s opposition party 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 conservative 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.
“I think we made a mistake in relation to this policy,” Dutton told Nine Network television. “I think it’s important that we say that and recognize it and our intention was to make sure that where taxpayers are working hard and their...