Anthony Albanese campaigning in VIC with Premier Jacinta Allan

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The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused the opposition leader of ‘pretending’ to change the Coalition’s policy to cut thousands of public servant jobs. With Labor now either overtaking or closing the gap to Liberals in pre-election surveys.

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00:00Even before Peter Dutton's back down, Federal Labor had planned on pursuing this issue on

00:06day 10 of the election campaign.

00:09Labor has relentlessly attacked the Coalition over this policy and overnight released analysis

00:14which argued that limiting work from home arrangements disproportionately affected

00:19women.

00:20It had planned on continuing that line of attack throughout the campaign, but the Coalition

00:24has sought to mitigate that by backing down.

00:26Now Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will spend the day in Melbourne today, his second visit

00:31this campaign.

00:32The ALP brand at a state level has really suffered and Federal Labor is worried about

00:37that and about being punished at the ballot box as a result.

00:41It's facing threats to its left and to its right as it tries to sandbag marginal seats

00:45like Aston and Chisholm.

00:47But the Albanese campaign will go into week two of this election campaign with some momentum

00:53with the latest news poll results putting Labor ahead of the Coalition 52 to 48 after

00:58preferences.

00:59This is significant because this is the result that delivered Labor a majority government

01:04in 2022 and all polls now have Labor either ahead of the Coalition or gaining ground.

01:10So this indicates a shift in voter sentiment as we head into week two of this campaign.

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