Jacinta Allan wants to pick a fight about working from home – and businesses are playing into her hands

Jacinta Allan’s promise to legislate a work from home policy is one of the Victorian premier’s most politically astute moves to date, writes Guardian Australia’s Victorian state correspondent, Benita Kolovos. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

During the middle of the federal election campaign, amid relentless leaking about her unpopularity, claims she was dragging down Labor’s vote and whispers of a possible challenge to her leadership, the Victorian premier Jacinta Allan had a realisation.

“I’ve decided I just don’t care what they think any more,” one of Allan’s ministers says she told them in mid-April.