Some 76 per cent of Australians recently said they would want more pay to return to the workplace full-time. Photograph: Getty Images

It is hard to keep up with Australia. If it isn’t passing some of the toughest anti-vaping laws on the planet, it’s bringing in a world-first ban on social media for kids under the age of 16. Or becoming the first country to prohibit the artificial stone used for kitchen worktops that is linked with lung disease.

Now, Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria is planning another groundbreaking move: a law giving workers in both the private and public sectors the right to work from home for at least two days a week.

In the process, it is shaking the politic

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