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.
00:01People refusing to go back to work in Canberra is not acceptable.
00:05It will be an expectation of a Dutton Liberal Government
00:08that all members of the Australian Public 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,
00:27not just the ones that exist, but ones going forward in the future as well.
00:31Peter Dutton has back-flipped on his push to bring the public service
00:35back to the office five days a week.
00:38But the coalition has not abandoned its promise to reduce the public service by 41,000 roles
00:44through hiring freezes and closing roles where a person has retired or resigned.
00:48We'll make sure that we cut the wasteful spending from the public service
00:53and we'll also ensure that the size of the public service is
00:56reduced 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
01:12was a particularly unpopular policy for women voters.
01:15Coalition Minister for Finance Jane Hume described the back-flip as a pragmatic shift
01:20in light of Peter Dutton's overall slip in the polls against Labor'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.