Top bureaucrat Michael Pezzullo has been under scrutiny over his dealings with Liberal powerbroker and lobbyist Scott Briggs.
The Australian government paid $80 million to look after 60 men. Less than two years later that money is gone.
Dennis Richardson’s classified inquiry is a scathing assessment of how hundreds of millions of dollars were managed in the so-called Pacific Solution.
Sustained investigative reporting has unveiled wide-reaching problems in our immigration system,the government response will be closely watched.
Former top cop Christine Nixon reveals that,as rorters and criminals flooded the visa system,the authorities went missing.
Millions of dollars of Australian taxpayer money funnelled to PNG to look after the remaining refugees from Australian camps appear to have gone missing.
Michael Pezzullo gave British American Tobacco access to a top official after a lobbyist friend’s request,and spoke to a consulting boss about privatising the nation’s COVID quarantine system.
The Age,The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes reveal how Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo used WhatsApp messages to try to reshape governments.
Our reporters have uncovered a cache of messages,sent by Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo to a Liberal powerbroker,where he tried to protect his allies and denigrate his enemies.
Documents reveal how Australian company Canstruct made big profits servicing refugees on Nauru,and they only got bigger as time went on.
The Department of Home Affairs is almost entirely Pezzullo’s creation. As the man at the top,he must accept responsibility for the culture of the department he has led.