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DeepSeek unleashes the China hysterics — but are they too late?

DeepSeek’s success with its AI tool suggests Western efforts to contain China are doomed. And that has anti-China hysterics in a lather.

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Australia’s Kyiv embassy to reopen as Ukraine aid tops $1.5bn

Penny Wong says Australia will reopen its embassy in Ukraine after closing it in 2022 due to the war with Russia, and Fatima Payman is putting out the call for candidates for her Australia’s Voice Party.

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Are you HARD ENOUGH for Mike Pezzullo’s comeback?

Discredited former Home Affairs head Mike Pezzullo has called for national service and ‘hard patriotism’ to fight China.

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The Coalition’s home affairs experiment was doomed to fail. Tony Burke has a huge job on his hands

The vision of making immigration function as part of Australia’s national security and law enforcement apparatus is hopefully over

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Ministers aren’t the problem at a shrinking Home Affairs

Changing ministers at Home Affairs won’t fix its problems, especially when Labor wants effective management of our visa system.

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Democracy might be under threat. Security bureaucrats are not

The Trump assassination attempt has got Australian politicians excited that they too could be under threat — which would mean we need to give even more money to security agencies.

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'The universe has got a plan for us all': Pezzullo speaks out

Former Home Affairs boss says he 'made mistakes' but is moving on.

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Liberal MP referred to police for alleged abuse

Taylor Martin has been reported to the police for alleged verbal abuse of a former MP, Mike Pezzullo claims he shouldn’t have been sacked, and Elon Musk takes on Albanese over free speech.

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New Home Affairs head appointed after Pezzullo sacking

Stephanie Foster has been named as the new Home Affairs department secretary after former boss Mike Pezzullo was sacked.

AAP

China not a place for the naive: Cheng Lei

Recently freed Australian journalist Cheng Lei says Australians who’d like to travel to China should not be naive about the risks, and an Indigenous land council responsible for cultural heritage plans in a wide area of Victoria has gone into administration after reported allegations of fraud totalling more than $150,000.

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Hypocritical Pezzullo brought undone by the media he railed at

Goodbye to Mike Pezzullo — the hard-line bureaucrat who railed at leakers while himself leaking. Now that hypocrisy has caught up with him.

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Mike Pezzullo sacked after scathing findings accusing him of misusing his position

The government has sacked the secretary of the Home Affairs department, Mike Pezzullo, after an inquiry found he had breached the Public Service Code of Conduct.

The Conversation

Home affairs boss Pezzullo sacked after leaked texts

Powerful public servant Mike Pezzullo has been sacked after the publication of leaked texts containing gossip and criticism of ministers.

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'Well above the norm': More Code of Conduct investigations than previously thought

Altogether there are around two dozen formal investigations underway.

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Everything you need to know from day one of Senate estimates

Pezzullo on full pay, Infrastructure dept's 'hotties list', and more.

Crikey

Dutton’s debacle: How the faux-tough immigration cops lost control of our borders

Peter Dutton presided over a department that enabled organised crime, sex traffickers and illegal immigrants to treat our borders as porous.

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King of the fossil-fuel industry

Resources Minister Madeleine King says cutting Australia’s gas supply would ‘worsen poverty and inequality’ and lead to ‘shortages … and high prices’, and independent Senator Lidia Thorpe says Dan Andrews quitting six days after announcing his plan to raze and redevelop 44 public housing towers was a ‘dog act’.

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What about the children?

A UN expert panel is in Western Australia to investigate why the state’s child protective services take so many Indigenous children from their families, and too many kids with disability are shunted to ‘special schools’ because teachers don’t want to deal with them.

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From Pezzullo to PwC, people really like failing their own very public standards

It has been an incredible week for the glorious political art of doing the exact things one has loudly condemned in the past.

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Exposure of Pezzullo raises more questions about Collaery prosecution

Mike Pezzullo’s role in Bernard Collaery’s trial should be under scrutiny in light of revelations about his ties with Liberal figure Scott Briggs.

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Clive Palmer takes No for an answer

Miner Clive Palmer will use $2 million of his billions to back the No vote in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum, and Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo gave British American Tobacco access to one of his department’s senior customs officials.

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The next Pezzullo will be harder to spot — and harder still to cut out

After decades of rot and stagnancy, these are the men politics gives us: a class of shadow-politician vital to Canberra’s irradiated ecosystem.

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Pezzullo thinks leakers should be jailed. Does that apply when he leaks documents?

Mike Pezzullo was quick with a briefing after the Christchurch massacre. He was a lot slower on right-wing terrorism beforehand, though.

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Mike Pezzullo, a public servant who served only himself and his cronies

The Home Affairs secretary has been stood down while there’s an inquiry, but Crikey readers reckon that should be permanent.

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Jacinta Allan odds-on to succeed Dan Andrews

Daniel Andrews’ deputy Jacinta Allan is more than likely to replace him in the top job, and Football Australia considered selling the Matildas, Socceroos and A-Leagues to a private equity firm or sports marketing group for 99 years.

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