Peter Dutton has left the door open to slashing the federal education department as part of his pledge to sack 41,000 public servants. Responding to questions about a “woke agenda” in curriculums, the opposition leader suggested students were being “indoctrinated” at school – a move Labor has described as being pulled “from the Doge playbook”.
The opposition leader has refused to say exactly where or how he would cut the public service, but on Tuesday indicated cuts could fall on “back-office operations”, and that he could put conditions on federal education funding.
