On the public service cuts, Dutton says:

our policy applied to public servants in Canberra, the Prime Minister wanted people to believe that it was applying across the economy and it was going to affect every workplace, which was never the policy at all. So what we’ve said is that if there is an arrangement that you’ve got in your workplace, your boss, and you could work from home, or whatever the flexible arrangement. So that’s fantastic. That’s a decision between you and your employer in your workplace, and there’s no issue. We’ve never had any issue with that whatsoever.

Our argument in relation to Canberra was that we wanted to make sure, and we do want to make sure, that taxpayers who are working hard providing their taxes to the Commonwealth Government, that that money is being spent in the most efficient way. The government’s increased the public service in Canberra by about 20% and we want to make sure that we have flexible arrangements in place. That’s fine, and we’ve made that clear. Hopefully that stops the lies from being told,

It is not a lie to say that the public service influences the conditions for the private sector as well, and that Dutton can not just cut 41,000 public services, through natural attrition, with no frontline cuts, within five years. It can’t happen. One of those parts of the commitment has to be broken.