‘Ineffective’:Home Affairs hammered over trafficking investigation failures

‘Ineffective’:Home Affairs hammered over trafficking investigation failures

Auditor-general damns Home Affairs’ handling of migration agents after finding inadequate supervision and poor complaint handling.

  • byAngus Thompson

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The man who tried to buy a country

The man who tried to buy a country

Amit Gupta’s home was raided,had his phones tapped and then he was gone. Now authorities can’t get him back.

  • byNick McKenzie andMichael Bachelard
Home Affairs ‘looking into’ six-figure shareholding of senior bureaucrat

Home Affairs ‘looking into’ six-figure shareholding of senior bureaucrat

A key bureaucrat in the Home Affairs department’s cybersecurity area is a shareholder in one of Australia’s biggest cybersecurity companies.

  • byMichael Bachelard andNick McKenzie
Dutton ignored warnings as offshore processing show ‘rolls on’,says Labor

Dutton ignored warnings as offshore processing show ‘rolls on’,says Labor

Then-minister Peter Dutton was sent a briefing note about the audit,and he simply indicated he had “noted” the report without having a discussion with his department.

  • byMichael Bachelard,Nick McKenzie andAngus Thompson
Drugs,guns,corruption:Australia paid suspect companies to run offshore detention

Drugs,guns,corruption:Australia paid suspect companies to run offshore detention

Former ASIO boss finds Home Affairs failed to conduct adequate due diligence when issuing contracts that led to public money being paid to suspected criminals and corrupt officials.

  • byNick McKenzie,Michael Bachelard andAmelia Ballinger
Sovereign Borders wasted and mismanaged millions,claims senior official

Sovereign Borders wasted and mismanaged millions,claims senior official

A senior Home Affairs bureaucrat has detailed grave moral and integrity concerns about waste and mismanagement in Australia’s controversial offshore detention regime.

  • byNick McKenzie andMichael Bachelard
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Undercover cops did a Hollywood-style job under management more like Utopia
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Undercover cops did a Hollywood-style job under management more like Utopia

“The situation is not ideal,” deadpanned the investigator who drew attention to the failings of the AFP’s undercover program. That’s an understatement.

  • byMichael Bachelard andNick McKenzie
Undercover and alone:How the AFP mishandled its most endangered officers
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Undercover and alone:How the AFP mishandled its most endangered officers

Australia’s undercover police live a dangerous double life,lying for a living and surviving on their wits. A devastating report shows how they were let down by the agency supposed to protect them.

  • byNick McKenzie,Michael Bachelard andAmelia Ballinger
Pezzullo’s fallen empire nothing to be missed

Pezzullo’s fallen empire nothing to be missed

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.

  • byNick McKenzie
Failures on quarantine contract helped sink Pezzullo
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Failures on quarantine contract helped sink Pezzullo

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.

  • byNick McKenzie,Michael Bachelard andJames Massola
Government quietly changes secretary payout requirements ahead of Pezzullo findings
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Government quietly changes secretary payout requirements ahead of Pezzullo findings

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.

  • byLisa Visentin