A humiliating backdown on an ideologically driven policy that would have hurt services, ppl working from home & pushed the ACT into recession. I'll keep fighting against public service cuts but have no confidence Coalition won't keep attacking Canberra. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04... - ThreadSky

davidpocock.bsky.social • 1 day ago

A humiliating backdown on an ideologically driven policy that would have hurt services, ppl working from home & pushed the ACT into recession.

I'll keep fighting against public service cuts but have no confidence Coalition won't keep attacking Canberra.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-06/coalition-abandon-work-from-home-41000-jobs/105144090

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k2blues.bsky.social•1 day ago

But if thr LNP win the election will they change their policy again? Don’t risk it. #LNPNeverAgain

wildgoanna.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was such a bad move in the first place from a LNP mob who just don’t think through what they’re doing

olthwaiteeric.bsky.social•1 day ago

When you spend most of your time on Sky News and 2GB you start to think all voters are MAGA devotees.

Great to see the wheels falling off for #TemuTrump

hirokiboy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Journalists must always address the reason and not the excuse. We know he wants to gut the public service, to privatise it. We need to discuss that & not waste time on debunking excuses like waste or efficiency or whatever.

50rass.bsky.social•1 day ago

Facing growing public opposition to scrapping work from home in the public sector Dutton and his second rate team panicked, and have conducted humiliating backdown retreat. But still not trusted.

theboof17.bsky.social•1 day ago

Glass jaw Dutton? Just another evil lazy corrupt lying liberal grub.

captainjim.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who on earth believes this about-face?!

migaloo1.bsky.social•1 day ago

LNP = Lies No Policies

A Big Libspill is coming

All Zionist Pond Scum Lie through their teeth.

Put Zionists Last

#auspol

Scumbag Dutton openly supports a Wanted Zionist Terrorist Leader who has an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for the massacre of innocent Children.

corkscrew2.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does the Coalition know
which track it is
that they want
to get back on .....😆

videodrome-oz.bsky.social•1 day ago

It has the feeling of policy-on-the-run, like the gas announcement and others.
So either Spud is just a wild card, throwing out bad ideas, or he is desperately hiding his deep agenda.
I like neither option.

melhalpin.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don’t listen to a word he or his party say. Peter Dutton has shown his cards time and time again.

He cannot be trusted.

eevis396783.bsky.social•1 day ago

As a Kiwi, watching from across the ditch, I am gobsmacked that this yahoo gets another chance?!? Like, HOW?!? WHY?!? 😵‍💫

kelanoa.bsky.social•1 day ago

They’ll use the oldest trick in the Liberal playbook. Get elected, claim to have found a gigantic black hole in the budget, then start cutting whatever they don’t like. Tony Abbott provides the very worst and most blatant example. Can’t trust the LNP, now or ever. #auspol

deblind.bsky.social•1 day ago

LNP in free fall. Australians are starting to put the pieces together.
Dutton’s ideological thought bubbles are revealing his true character and it’s totally unpalatable.

andrewlissiman.bsky.social•1 day ago

In the same breath as Dutton said that he would crack down on wfh, he announced his intention to work from home at Kirribilli
🤔🤷🏻
#Duttonbackflip

echoechotish.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Don't believe him - his hero Trump is a pathological liar. If he wins, he absolutely will bring this up. Don't give him the chance #dontriskdutton #putlibslast

ericarfabee.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you believe this Thug, I have a bridge to sell you.

It’s ‘no cuts to the ABC, no cuts to Medicare’ all over again.

#dontRiskDutton

mattdx.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can’t trust the libs.

fatoldduffer.bsky.social•1 day ago

If the LNP still has DOGE then this is still absolutely going to happen. As will the sacking of tens of thousands of public servants.
As someone else pointed out, this so-called “backflip” is purely to limit electoral damage.

theboof17.bsky.social•1 day ago

Glass jaw Dutton? Just another evil lazy corrupt lying liberal grub.

tony3163.bsky.social•1 day ago

This seems politically inept, even by Dutton/LNP standards.
The people who supported the plans won’t like it.
The people who did not, will by cynical and not believe/trust the backflip.
Lose/Lose.
The focus groups results must be dire.

ameliahtausilia.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s lying. Plain and simple

lightningaussie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Keep fighting David

melsp.bsky.social•1 day ago

As Malcolm said…. THUG

ardtarig.bsky.social•1 day ago

The problem is Dutton is making so many other mistakes. He is incompetent

tzortzo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Australians don’t want Trump’s extremism and that disdain will only increase as Trump plunges the world into recession. But Dutton, the Trump acolyte, is a right wing extremist who will implement Project 2025, if elected.

enlightenedcap.bsky.social•1 day ago

The guy is Trump jnr, he's done. Just shit ideas after shit ideas.

jump-smash.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dutton & LNP: Core policies?....

Nuclear power,
Banning WFH,
Cutting 41k public servants
all scrapped.

What’s left? ..... two weeks to pre polling?!

drejosephine.bsky.social•1 day ago

An ablest policy that patronises workers

Whose stupid idea in the first place??

jinba-itai.bsky.social•1 day ago

He will say anything to get voted in!!!!

elanoradreamer.bsky.social•1 day ago

And if Dutton is elected, the first thing he will do is ban work from home. He will then fire 40,000 public servants and hire contractors.

golden0rb.bsky.social•1 day ago

This backflip is a fig leaf to limit electoral damage. The ideology and intent remain unchanged and once in power they will attempt to do the same damage by whatever cobbled together set of actions and excuses they can string together.

shelbyac.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well said

petsam.bsky.social•1 day ago

Anything to get their snouts in the trough so they can help their rich mates pillage our country. They have no moral compass, certainly not enough to be humiliated David.
Watch msm drop this from news cycles within a day, anyone else it’d be campaign death.

davenatural.bsky.social•1 day ago

great to see the me too and policy backflips on the run.
any leader?? who asserts he can convince Trump re tariffs surely would not be so weak

robstowasser.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lots of ideology but scant policy on offer from LNP. LNP chances of getting elected improved if they don’t reveal intentions. Political parties should be forced to detail their policies prior to an election. Any unannounced policies introduced subjected to a higher barrier of passage in parliament.

sallydickson.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The decision to use superannuation to help finance homes is most worrying, especially with the free-fall happening now.

blardyslartfast.bsky.social•9 hours ago

He still has the ABC in his sights

steverodgers1.bsky.social•1 day ago

When people show you who they are believe them, the first time.

sallydickson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Absolutely the first time.

margbell.bsky.social•1 day ago

And anything we share collectively

carlamuse.bsky.social•1 day ago

The #LNP are no longer a competent party. Only those who enjoy self flagulation and misery would vote for the #LNP.

onimod53.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wonder how the Property Council is feeling about their donation right now...

socalsilencer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Forcing ppl back 2 the office, just so Corporates can continue 2 write off the space, is pure cruelty!
Pigeon-holing families into spending money they dont have on childcare; they no longer have flexibility 4 dr appts, & must PAY 4 transport & parking—which they do NOT have the luxury 2 write off🤬

terrifrancis.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unfortunately we can't see the policy behind the cuts to 41,000 jobs through freezes and natural attrition over five years.
Ducking and weaving.

shelbyac.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's a wolf 🐺 in sheep's 🐑 clothing that one .

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