Multiple defamation threats,a legal costs loss and a humiliating blunder. There’s plenty for the Seven West Media board to discuss when it meets today.
The Albanese government has moved rapidly to replace Mike Pezzullo with a new Home Affairs boss.
While the hawkish Pezzullo can take much credit for running Operation Sovereign Borders and other hardline border security operations,the Home Affairs empire he built and oversaw never worked as intended and has failed at critical junctures.
The decision by the ousted Home Affairs secretary to direct a government contract to his lobbyist friend’s firm without declaring it was among the factors in his dismissal.
The sprawling and troubled department that was created in Michael Pezzullo’s image is entering a new era and may need to be overhauled to focus on new priorities.
Politicisation of the public service results in valuing partisan politics over policy and does the nation,indeed a political party,little good in the end.
Australian Public Service Commissioner,Dr Gordon de Brouwer,determined that Pezzullo had breached the public service code of conduct at least 14 times.
A new ruling signed off by the Remuneration Tribunal on Friday appears to revoke the lucrative compensation obligations owed to department secretaries if they are found to breach their code of conduct duties.
Top bureaucrat Michael Pezzullo has been under scrutiny over his dealings with Liberal powerbroker and lobbyist Scott Briggs.
Sustained investigative reporting has unveiled wide-reaching problems in our immigration system,the government response will be closely watched.
Binjun Xie has been arrested and deported from Australia as the federal government shakes up border security to reduce exploitation of foreign workers.