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The prime minister was also asked to weigh in on the ongoing dispute between the NSW government and rail unions - and whether the federal government plans to intervene.

But Anthony Albanese shot this suggestion down, saying this was a state dispute of a state branch of a union over pay with a state government".

I support very much the efforts of the Minns government to bring this dispute to an end, common sense has to apply here, and I think that the union needs to acknowledge that it is alienating people through these actions of not turning up to work. And there was hope on the weekend that it would be settled, [and] it should have been ...

We're getting to the point where the union needs to see common sense, settle this dispute with the Minns government. [The NSW premier] Chris Minns is working very hard to get an end to this dispute.