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.
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.
The powerful public servant suggested in 2019 a return to the D Notice to suppress press freedom. But what is a D Notice?
A barrage of messages Michael Pezzullo sent to a Liberal powerbroker reveals his drive to oust leading public servants and become Australia’s most senior bureaucrat.
The Home Affairs boss has stood aside while investigators look into whether he flouted the public service code of conduct or shared inside information improperly.
The Home Affairs boss had clear instructions for public servants pushing personal agendas. He’s not following that advice,so the government must act quickly.
The Age,The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes reveal how Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo used WhatsApp messages to try to reshape governments.
Mike Pezzullo’s candid exchanges with Scott Briggs cannot be dismissed as a kind of political locker-room talk that means nothing.
Michael Pezzullo pushed for the power to censor the media’s reporting of some national security issues after controversial raids on Australian journalists.
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.