The government’s WFH legislation has reclaimed its central purpose: a wedge for her

September 10, 2026 — 7:50pm

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In the end, the Labor Party has exactly what it wanted out of its promise to give people a legislated right to work from home two days a week.

The laws, in all likelihood, will never come into existence. On Thursday, they were condemned to a form of legislative purgatory – an upper house select committee for inquiry.

There, it will dwell in darkness until this parliament is prorogued and the bill expires along with all the other unloved, forgotten and forsaken legislation of the past four years.

This was never really about changing the law. All along, the main game for Labor was to draw the Liberal Party into a........

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