Australia election 2025 live: ‘We made a mistake’ – Dutton apologises as Coalition backflips on work from home policy and public sector cuts
Coalition dumps policy to force public servants into the office and will not force redundancies. Follow today’s news liveAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastLast week a Time Magazine article about Albanese’s social media reforms, and the ban on social media for under 16s described the PM as having “undeniable everyman charisma”.Nova hosts ask Albanese about those reforms, who gives kudos to Whippa for his advocacy on the issue, and says the crackdown on the “social harm” that these platforms cause is necessary.The mums and dads who have turned what are personal tragedies into not wanting that to happen to any other parent to lose a young one, they’ve shown courage and dignity, and it’s been quite extraordinary. And I want kids off their phones and out honor the sports field. Social media companies have a social responsibility, and we need to just recognize that this is causing social harm, and I’m really proud of what my government has done.That’s one of the reasons why we’ve [Labor] done issues like working from home, put that in the industrial relations legislation.And I’m not quite sure where they are at the moment, but the Coalition certainly said they’d stop working from home. They didn’t want to support it. Today, they’ve gone from defending to pretending that they weren’t. Continue reading...
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Coalition dumps policy to force public servants into the office and will not force redundancies. Follow today’s news live
- Anywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to them
- Interactive guide to electorates in the Australian election
- Listen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: Gina
- See all our Australian election 2025 coverage
- Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast
Last week a Time Magazine article about Albanese’s social media reforms, and the ban on social media for under 16s described the PM as having “undeniable everyman charisma”.
Nova hosts ask Albanese about those reforms, who gives kudos to Whippa for his advocacy on the issue, and says the crackdown on the “social harm” that these platforms cause is necessary.
The mums and dads who have turned what are personal tragedies into not wanting that to happen to any other parent to lose a young one, they’ve shown courage and dignity, and it’s been quite extraordinary. And I want kids off their phones and out honor the sports field. Social media companies have a social responsibility, and we need to just recognize that this is causing social harm, and I’m really proud of what my government has done.
That’s one of the reasons why we’ve [Labor] done issues like working from home, put that in the industrial relations legislation.
And I’m not quite sure where they are at the moment, but the Coalition certainly said they’d stop working from home. They didn’t want to support it. Today, they’ve gone from defending to pretending that they weren’t. Continue reading...
