WEBVTT - Work from home ‘right’ gets iced

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<v Speaker 1>Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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<v Speaker 1>the Front's afternoon headlines. Is working from home of workplace right?

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<v Speaker 1>That question is blowing up Victorian politics as Premier Ben

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<v Speaker 1>Carroll seeks to appease furious business people by delaying a

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<v Speaker 1>work from home law until July twenty twenty seven. That's

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<v Speaker 1>after the state election. Carrol's only been premier for a

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<v Speaker 1>fortnight after rolling his labor predecessor, just Center Allen. Allen's

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<v Speaker 1>the one who created the policy, which seemed like an

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<v Speaker 1>easy win after Peter Dutton blew up his prime ministerial

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<v Speaker 1>campaign by saying public servants shouldn't have worked from home

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<v Speaker 1>as a right. The Victorian law would have meant employees

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<v Speaker 1>had a right under the state's Equal Opportunity Act to

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<v Speaker 1>work from home at least two days a week, But

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<v Speaker 1>now Carol, who's from the party's right faction, says he's

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<v Speaker 1>concerned about the effect it'd have on small businesses. That

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<v Speaker 1>means you'll be looking at compromises including carving out small

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<v Speaker 1>businesses and getting rid of parts of the bill that

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<v Speaker 1>would have seen employers pay staff to set up their

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<v Speaker 1>home offices. Homeowners can enjoy a tiny moment of relief

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<v Speaker 1>with the Reserve Bank keeping the official cash rate on

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<v Speaker 1>hold at four point three five percent, while the bank

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<v Speaker 1>is warning inflation is still too high. The Reserve Bank's

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<v Speaker 1>Statement of Monetary Policy, released on Tuesday says house price

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<v Speaker 1>growth will be slower than anticipated thanks to Labour's housing

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<v Speaker 1>tax changes. The bank also thinks immigration fueled population growth

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<v Speaker 1>is spurring slightly faster economic growth than it was expecting.

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<v Speaker 1>You can read all our experts analysis right now at

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<v Speaker 1>the Australian dot com dot au and come back to

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<v Speaker 1>the front first thing in the morning for the story

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<v Speaker 1>that's made politics a whole lot more entertaining than usual

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<v Speaker 1>this week. Did Anthony Albanezi really make it crewe gesture

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<v Speaker 1>involving melons? And has that lapse in judgment really caused

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<v Speaker 1>a diplomatic drama with Japan we didn't need to be having.

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<v Speaker 1>Dennis Shanahan will join us first thing Wednesday morning, catch

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<v Speaker 1>you right here.