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Angus Taylor defends Coalition policy U-turns on work from home and job cuts
Angus Taylor has conceded that a proposal to ban working from home for public servants was “the wrong policy” but has accused Labor of a “scare campaign” about whom that policy would affect.
I will say, though, Sarah [Ferguson], that it was also a very misleading campaign from Labor that has not helped the situation because they were trying to claim that we were pursuing this across the entire economy. That was not the case and, sadly, that kind of misleading campaign, that scare campaign from Labor, we are seeing elsewhere and will continue to see.
We have seen a growth of 41,000 in the public service and we want to see a better public service, not a bigger public service.
Not at all, and we haven’t said that. What we have said is we need to get the public service to the size it was when we were last in government.
When we talk about those additional 10 services, that means a young person is able to go to see their clinician on 10 more sessions, and that means that, at the clinician end, the business model is more successful for them. And that’s what the clinicians have asked for. They need more services to deal with complex matters.
There’s a rebranding, just to point out what is a fact here in relation to Labor’s announcement – the Coalition had set up 40 centres and the government has taken those and is rebranding them as part of this package.
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Publish date : 2025-04-07 21:56:00
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