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Speaker 1: What of the never never, the twain shall meet moments

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Speaker 1: that came out of COVID was this work from home business? There?

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Speaker 1: I mean here we are five years on and the

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Speaker 1: battle has not only not died, it's intensified. The big

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Speaker 1: gab fest this week in Canberra had the unions asking

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Speaker 1: for a four day week. Thank you very much. Victoria

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Speaker 1: run of course these days by communists, has already stated

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Speaker 1: they will put it into law even though they can't.

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Speaker 1: And now the obligatory poll that shows guess what, huge

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Speaker 1: numbers of people want the right in law to work

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Speaker 1: from home. Other side of the equation is the poor

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Speaker 1: or businesses who are pulling their hair out, and in

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Speaker 1: places like the UK and America it's got a bit

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Speaker 1: ugly with mandates and threats over returning to the office

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Speaker 1: or else we're going to sack you. The coalition in

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Speaker 1: Australia in the recent campaign, you might remember, ran on

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Speaker 1: a policy of banning work from home for public servants.

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Speaker 1: It went down like a cup of cold sick and was,

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Speaker 1: among other things, like their nuclear policy, seen as the

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Speaker 1: reason they lost so badly. And that's the trouble with democracy,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. What if the people are wrong. What if

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Speaker 1: the collective don't get it and more importantly don't care.

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Speaker 1: You can run a pole. I mean, I could run

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Speaker 1: a poll that says, would you like the government to

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Speaker 1: pay for a family sized chocolate block and a French

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Speaker 1: Martini for every New Zealander every Friday? I mean, you

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Speaker 1: get lots of support for that, wouldn't You're what we

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Speaker 1: want and what makes sense doesn't always align all but

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Speaker 1: I save time and the commute. Yes you do, and

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Speaker 1: that's good because you've got to remember that not all

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Speaker 1: ideas are one hundred percent bad or one hundred percent good,

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Speaker 1: right or wrong. But on the whole, working from home

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Speaker 1: does not suit the employer as much as the employee.

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Speaker 1: Are there exceptions, of course, there are exceptions, But exceptions

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Speaker 1: are not the debate. The debate is the law, and

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Speaker 1: the law applies to everybody, and that is the problem.

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Speaker 1: Making it worse is the people who make the laws

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Speaker 1: are given their jobs, of course by the people who

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Speaker 1: do the polls. So do you suck up to them

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Speaker 1: or give them what they want? Or do you do

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Speaker 1: the right thing? And given in this case, the right

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Speaker 1: thing may not be the popular thing. For more from

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