Public service jobs on line as poll battlelines form

Labor says workers would have to fork out $5000 a year if they had to go in to the office full time. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)

Public servants are on the coalition's chopping block and those working from home are being targeted as the major parties draw up election battlelines.

Some 36,000 workers will be axed under a coalition government, opposition finance spokeswoman Jane Hume confirmed, vowing to bring the public service headcount back to pre-2022 levels.