A journalist asked Anthony Albanese if he wanted to address what the protester was asking. Albanese completely avoided the issue and went back to prepared lines:

It just encourages, I think… Security people should be allowed to do their job. But that’s up to you. Hang on. Hang on. Can I make this point?

Yesterday, Peter Dutton tried to pretend that he no longer supported sacking 41,000 public servants, and also – and also – that they now were walking away from their plan to oppose working from home. This was after, on working from home, they opposed our legislation that had that as a bargaining provision, along with opposing same-job, same-pay and the other fairness in the workplace provisions that we had put in place.

When it comes to these issues in terms of sacking public servants, Peter Dutton would now pretend that he can do this just through attrition.

The people who leave the Public Service most frequently are those front-line people delivering services. If you go into DFAT, it’s not a rotation. You tend to stay there as a life career. The people in Services Australia, the people in Centrelink, the people delivering those front-line services, have the most frequency of changes. So this is a pretence of a policy that simply cannot be believed