Katy Gallagher takes advantage of this press conference to talk about Peter Dutton’s reverse ferrets on policy:

If we can make a comment on their shambles that is their public service policy and work from home. After campaigning for years for cuts to the public service, cutting 41,000 jobs, including mentioning it in the budget reply just a few weeks ago, Peter Dutton is now saying he didn’t really mean it.

On working from home, when he said that workers had to return to the office five days a week, he didn’t really mean that either. He tells us that 41,000 jobs will be cut by natural attrition, but front-line services will be protected.

The reality is where those high turnover departments, where we see turnover in public service, they’re in front-line public service agencies.

It’s simply not believable.