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The whole idea of Home Affairs and its constituent parts needs revisiting
A government wanting to get rid of Pezzullo or determined to undo his expensive and not very efficient empire, would not necessarily have to be involved in a public argument about human rights for refugees.
Home Affairs has been repeatedly criticised by bodies such as the Australian National Audit Office for waste and mismanagement of contracts, running into the billions, whether over computer purchases, facilities in Nauru and Manus Island.
- Jack Waterford
- Pearls and Irritations
- John Menadue’s Public Policy Journal
The reasons for the making of some immigration and Border Force contracts without tender remain obscure, in part because of the department’s chronic secretiveness.
People elsewhere in the national security system have…