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Work from home ‘right’ gets iced · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Is working from home of workplace right?
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  Speaker 1: That question is blowing up Victorian politics as Premier Ben
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  Speaker 1: Carroll seeks to appease furious business people by delaying a
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  Speaker 1: work from home law until July twenty twenty seven. That's
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  Speaker 1: after the state election. Carrol's only been premier for a
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  Speaker 1: fortnight after rolling his labor predecessor, just Center Allen. Allen's
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  Speaker 1: the one who created the policy, which seemed like an
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  Speaker 1: easy win after Peter Dutton blew up his prime ministerial
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  Speaker 1: campaign by saying public servants shouldn't have worked from home
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  Speaker 1: as a right. The Victorian law would have meant employees
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  Speaker 1: had a right under the state's Equal Opportunity Act to
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  Speaker 1: work from home at least two days a week, But
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  Speaker 1: now Carol, who's from the party's right faction, says he's
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  Speaker 1: concerned about the effect it'd have on small businesses. That
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  Speaker 1: means you'll be looking at compromises including carving out small
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  Speaker 1: businesses and getting rid of parts of the bill that
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  Speaker 1: would have seen employers pay staff to set up their
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  Speaker 1: home offices. Homeowners can enjoy a tiny moment of relief
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  Speaker 1: with the Reserve Bank keeping the official cash rate on
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  Speaker 1: hold at four point three five percent, while the bank
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  Speaker 1: is warning inflation is still too high. The Reserve Bank's
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  Speaker 1: Statement of Monetary Policy, released on Tuesday says house price
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  Speaker 1: growth will be slower than anticipated thanks to Labour's housing
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  Speaker 1: tax changes. The bank also thinks immigration fueled population growth
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  Speaker 1: is spurring slightly faster economic growth than it was expecting.
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  Speaker 1: You can read all our experts analysis right now at
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  Speaker 1: the front first thing in the morning for the story
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  Speaker 1: that's made politics a whole lot more entertaining than usual
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  Speaker 1: this week. Did Anthony Albanezi really make it crewe gesture
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  Speaker 1: involving melons? And has that lapse in judgment really caused
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  Speaker 1: a diplomatic drama with Japan we didn't need to be having.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Shanahan will join us first thing Wednesday morning, catch
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  Speaker 1: you right here.