Amid growing pressure from state premiers to change course on a controversial cut to pandemic payments for casual workers, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has convened an urgent national cabinet meeting on Monday.
Mr Albanese has recently softened his rhetoric on the payments, made to workers who do not have sick leave entitlements, as state premiers – including Queensland’s Annastacia Palaszczuk and Tasmania’s Jeremy Rockliff – joined a growing chorus calling for them to be reinstated.
