Now don't get me wrong, it's a big "two thumbs up" YES from me for less time at work, but if we're going to advocate for change, I feel a "four day work week" falls some way short of the type of change required to reflect todays communities needs.

What would be better is more flexibility and a system that is fair for all. Lets break it down...

• For your average worker working a 5-day work week, with 4 weeks annual leave, 10-15 public holidays (depending on where you live… WTF is that all about?) and access to 2 weeks of paid personal leave the minimum requirement is 218 days of work, or 84% of the maximum available workdays.

• A four-day work week without any other adjustments means a minimum workday requirement of 166 days (172 with pro rata annual & personal leave) or 64% (66%) by comparison. Without all the leave entitlements, a straight up 4 day work week is 208 days & 80%... for those not so good at math.

• Dispensing with all other leave, a flexible 12 week leave entitlement means a minimum requirement of 200 workdays (77%).

Now, if we're mandating anything it should be that workers must use the leave. Say,10 of the 12 weeks to be taken during the year they are earned, thus Companies do not need carry the extra liability, workers have more time off and can still bank some "personal leave" for those inevitable rainy days.

Australia is, of course, a secular country with no official religion, therefore public holidays at the back end of December and the first full moon after Equinox are likely coincidences but with 12 weeks flexible leave, workers of faith can choose to observe Christmas & Easter… or Diwali, Hanukkah, Ramadan, etc… with note, "no religion" according to the last census was the fastest growing group (38.9%) second only to Christians (43.9%) which recorded an inverse trend.

More importantly, in my humble opinion, it is family friendly allowing for better alignment with the number of school holidays, but of course, a 4-day work week is also achievable for those that it suits.

Alas, we are far from a progressive society so we will not hold our collective breath, but taking a more wholistic view and a less complex proposal to the table would hopefully reduce the points of contention and narrow the opposing positions.

Now I'm not advocating this as the solution but rather as the start of a much broader conversation, acknowledging the existence of many other constraints and dependencies of varying priority. In fact, if it was up to me, the Government should not be allowed to publicly discuss anything until sweeping legislative changes to the tax system have been passed. But hey, that's me...

For what it's worth, I do believe there is one (1), and only one, public holiday that should be mandated by government at any level, which is a national holiday... day for all Australians... just not on 26 January.

And as a side, it would be remiss not to note, that changing Australia Day does not legally require a referendum, because it is not a part of the Australian Constitution. Considering the farcical crusade our current PM embarked on in his first term, and his virtuous self-positioning on the issue, you would have thought this was a no brainer.

Careful Anthony, for someone so clearly desperate for grand and exaggerated validation, history may consider such posturing to be ingenuine, even fraudulent, and by those less kind... a betrayal of cowardice.