Auditor-general damns Home Affairs’ handling of migration agents after finding inadequate supervision and poor complaint handling.
Amit Gupta’s home was raided,had his phones tapped and then he was gone. Now authorities can’t get him back.
A key bureaucrat in the Home Affairs department’s cybersecurity area is a shareholder in one of Australia’s biggest cybersecurity companies.
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.
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.
A senior Home Affairs bureaucrat has detailed grave moral and integrity concerns about waste and mismanagement in Australia’s controversial offshore detention regime.
“The situation is not ideal,” deadpanned the investigator who drew attention to the failings of the AFP’s undercover program. That’s an understatement.
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.
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.
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.