For five years the Department of Home Affairs was doing business with a man who was under investigation by the federal police for corruption. Why? Well,we’re still not really sure.
The grilling of senior police raises serious further questions about how Home Affairs managed multibillion-dollar offshore processing contracts.
Having won tens of millions of dollars worth of consulting work,this Canberra consultancy felt it was in the box seat for plenty more.
In March 2022,the AFP’s Sensitive Investigation Oversight Board approved Operation Bernie,which is investigating whether private company Canstruct was involved in corporate wrongdoing.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called on Peter Dutton to co-operate with a government probe into the offshore detention contracts scandal engulfing the opposition leader’s former home affairs ministry.
Vicky Heaton is one of almost 140,000 Australian residents waiting between 12 and 40 years to be reunited with their parents.
When it comes to asylum seekers,we have barely begun to think about our responsibilities and our failures.
Recriminations over the conduct of the former Coalition government have mostly centred on Scott Morrison to date. The next inquiry will put Peter Dutton under scrutiny.
Karen Andrews says her former department needs reshaping and time might be up for its long-serving head,Mike Pezzullo.
A mounting litany of problems could mean the end of the Home Affairs experiment that began six years ago
The department’s failings are so widespread and pervasive only a broad public examination will restore confidence in its vital functions.