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Pezzullo’s mate Scott Briggs is a man with fingers in many, many pies

Just who is Briggs, the powerbroker and ‘shrewd operator’ who was a long-time confidant of the country’s leaders?

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How do Pezzullo’s texts stack up against the public service code of conduct?

Unless the leaked messages from the country’s most powerful mandarin are the fraud of the century, he’s a goner.

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If Mike Pezzullo doesn’t like parliamentary democracy, he shouldn’t work for one

A worldview like his is antithetical to some basic tenets of Australian democracy, such as a free press and parliamentary scrutiny.

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Credlin: Indigenous spend of $40bn pa ‘spot on’

Sky News Australia host Peta Credlin says Kamahl’s debunked claim that $40 billion a year is spent on Indigenous peoples is ‘spot on’, and Save the Children says 33 Australian women and children have been held illegally in a Syrian camp for four years.

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View from The Hill: 'Player' Mike Pezzullo undone by power play

Mike Pezzullo, one of Canberra’s most powerful and certainly most controversial public servants, cannot survive the revelation of the trove of text messages showing him blatantly inserting himself into the political process.

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Brownlow Medal 2023 red carpet – as it happened

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CPSU and George Brandis say Michael Pezzullo’s position is ‘untenable’

Leaked texts between Pezzullo and Scott Briggs spark widespread calls for home affairs secretary to be sacked

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Pezzullo story points to serious systemic problems in the Australian Public Service

The revelations in the Nine newspapers that Mike Pezzullo, secretary of the powerful Home Affairs department, shared with Liberal Party powerbroker Scott Briggs are certainly extraordinary. But, just like the revelations about Robodebt from the royal commission, they must not be treated as an isolated case but as evidence of…

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Home Affairs boss sidelined over leaked Liberal texts

A probe into text messages showing Home Affairs chief Mike Pezzullo seeking to influence the Liberal Party has led to him stepping aside.

AAP

Mike Pezzullo and the trashing of the Australian Public Service

While Home Affairs has been involved in scandal after scandal, it turns out its secretary Mike Pezzullo was busy playing political games with party powerbrokers.

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Home affairs department head Michael Pezzullo standing aside pending investigation over leaked texts

The home affairs minister Clare O’Neil said she was ‘aware’ of reporting by Nine of the texts, which include comments about political figures

The Guardian - AU

Morrison government paid corrupt businessman millions for offshore processing on Nauru

Mozammil Gulamabbas Bhojani was convicted of bribing two Nauruan officials with more than $120,000

The Guardian - AU

Home Affairs officials grilled over employment of man under investigation for child sex offences

Yesterday, Stephen Mitchell was sentenced to more than 13 years in jail for a raft of child sex offences, which police had been investigating prior to his employment with the Department of Home Affairs.

ABC News

Home Affairs boss Mike Pezzullo admits 'human error' allowed Nauru offshore processing instrument to lapse

The Home Affairs secretary says his department 'messed up' by accidentally allowing Australia's offshore processing policy to lapse.

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Department issues mea culpa for human error over Nauru

Home Affairs department head Mike Pezzullo said human error resulted in legislation designating Nauru as a regional processing site lapsing.

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National security tsar defends surveillance planes

One of the nation's most senior public servants has rejected findings his department was not effective in the management of a multibillion-dollar contract.

ABC News

Australia's top spies kept in dark over Morrison's secret appointments

Their job is to know other people's secrets, but not even Australia's top spooks knew about Scott Morrison's five hidden portfolios.

AAP

'Disgraceful":PM lashes coaltion over boat

The former coalition government "trashed" caretaker conventions and sought to "abuse" the public service on election day, the prime minister says.

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‘Disgraceful’: PM lashes coalition on boat

The former coalition government “trashed” caretaker conventions and sought to “abuse” the public service on election day, the prime minister says.

The Guardian - AU

Coalition ‘subverted democracy’ with election-day statement on asylum boat, Labor says

Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil says former government’s pressuring of public servants to reveal boat arrival was ‘unprecedented’

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Karen Andrews defends election-day reveal of asylum seeker boat interception, government calls on Coalition to apologise

The former home affairs minister rejects claims her office pressured public servants to act politically on election day, but the current Minister says the former government should apologise.

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Coalition told to apologise over boat saga

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says the public servants who refused efforts to politicise an asylum seeker boat arrival on election day are “patriots”.

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Officials resisted Morrison government's attempt to have them 'amplify' election day boat arrival

Federal public servants resisted the Morrison government’s attempt to have them amplify an election-day announcement that an asylum seeker boat had been intercepted, according to an inquiry into the incident.

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Albanese government restores abolished environment department but avoids major public service overhaul

The new government will also dilute the power of the massive Department of Home Affairs, but Anthony Albanese's initial shake-up is modest in scope.

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Scott Morrison’s staff urged border force to publicise Sri Lankan boat interception on election day

ABF officials made it clear publication of the interception could only proceed on the authority of the home affairs minister, Guardian Australia understands

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