Initial polling figures indicated that removing flexible working arrangements was a particularly unpopular policy for women voters. The Coalition has not abandoned its promise to reduce the public service by 41,000 roles through hiring freezes and closing roles where a person has retired or resigned.
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00:00That is not going to happen under a government I lead.
00:02People refusing to go back to work in Canberra is not acceptable.
00:05It will be an expectation of a Dutton Liberal Government that all members of the Australian
00:11Public Service work from the office five days a week.
00:14Look, I think we've made a mistake in relation to this policy.
00:17We strongly support flexible workplace arrangements.
00:20We've made a mistake in relation to the work from home policy.
00:23Most importantly, we'll make sure that we enshrine flexible working arrangements, not
00:27just the ones that exist, but ones going forward in the future as well.
00:31Peter Dutton has backflipped on his push to bring the public service back to the office
00:36five days a week, but the coalition has not abandoned its promise to reduce the public
00:41service by 41,000 roles through hiring freezes and closing roles where a person has retired
00:47or resigned.
00:48We'll make sure that we cut the wasteful spending from the public service and we'll also ensure
00:54that the size of the public service is reduced by 41,000 over a period of five years.
01:01That will be done through natural attrition and it will be done through a hiring freeze.
01:06There will be no forced redundancies.
01:08Initial polling figures indicated that removing flexible working arrangements was a particularly
01:12unpopular policy for women voters.
01:15Coalition Minister for Finance Jane Hume described the backflip as a pragmatic shift in light of Peter
01:21Dutton's overall slip in the polls against Labour's Anthony Albanese.
01:26Most importantly, we'll make sure that we enshrine flexible working arrangements,
01:30not just the ones that exist, but ones going forward in the future as well.