Australia’s opposition scraps pledge to end remote work for public servants | Elections News

Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton says election pledge was a ‘mistake’.

Australia’s main opposition party has scrapped election pledges to end remote work arrangements for public servants and sack tens of thousands of government employees amid declining support in the polls.

Peter Dutton, the leader of the centre-right Liberal Party, said on Monday that he recognised the proposals were a “mistake”.

“I think it’s important that we say that and recognise it, and our intention was…