Government prepares for findings on senior public servant
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Government prepares for findings on senior public servant

Top bureaucrat Michael Pezzullo has been under scrutiny over his dealings with Liberal powerbroker and lobbyist Scott Briggs.

  • byNick McKenzie andJames Massola

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Immigration problems are laid bare,time for real solutions
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Immigration problems are laid bare,time for real solutions

Sustained investigative reporting has unveiled wide-reaching problems in our immigration system,the government response will be closely watched.

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Alleged sex trafficking boss deported over underground prostitution network
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Alleged sex trafficking boss deported over underground prostitution network

Binjun Xie has been arrested and deported from Australia as the federal government shakes up border security to reduce exploitation of foreign workers.

  • byNick McKenzie andMichael Bachelard
Seeing red:Pauline Hanson’s Chinese Communist background revealed

Seeing red:Pauline Hanson’s Chinese Communist background revealed

Artist Merry Sparks’ revolutionary approach to her portrait of the One Nation leader proves that less is Mao.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andNoel Towell
Wielding power from the shadows

Wielding power from the shadows

As the fallout continues over the conduct of Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo,the Albanese government will be grappling with how to re-establish institutional checks on power.

  • byMichael Bachelard andNick McKenzie
Everyone is saying sorry. If only they actually meant it

Everyone is saying sorry. If only they actually meant it

It used to be the hardest word,but now “sorry” is uttered with ease - especially when it’s an apology for other people’s mistakes.

  • byMalcolm Knox
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What do Charles de Gaulle and Mick Jagger have in common? Step inside The French House
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What do Charles de Gaulle and Mick Jagger have in common? Step inside The French House

Yearning to escape everyday aggravations,the author and his imagination escape to the memory of a London pub and restaurant,where the art of conversation is all.

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Home Affairs chief’s links to big tobacco,PwC revealed
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Home Affairs chief’s links to big tobacco,PwC revealed

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.

  • byNick McKenzie andMichael Bachelard
It was one of Morrison’s most contentious foreign policy moves. Michael Pezzullo wanted to help
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It was one of Morrison’s most contentious foreign policy moves. Michael Pezzullo wanted to help

The Home Affairs secretary told a Liberal powerbroker he would back the then prime minister’s plan to move the embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

  • byNick McKenzie andMichael Bachelard
A ‘litany of lies’ or a document of ‘grace and generosity’? Voice debate sparks war of words

A ‘litany of lies’ or a document of ‘grace and generosity’? Voice debate sparks war of words

Healthy debate is constructive,but not when your agenda is aggressively espousing unnecessary division.

Why should you never put anything in writing? Ask Mike Pezzullo

Why should you never put anything in writing? Ask Mike Pezzullo

It’s an age-old truism for a reason,and one even my mother,now dead for nearly 40 years,drilled into me after reading my teen diary.

  • byJenna Price