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‘Ineffective’: Home Affairs hammered over trafficking investigation failures
Auditor-general damns Home Affairs’ handling of migration agents after finding inadequate supervision and poor complaint handling.
- by Angus Thompson
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The man who tried to buy a country
Amit Gupta’s home was raided, had his phones tapped and then he was gone. Now authorities can’t get him back.
- by Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
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Home Affairs ‘looking into’ six-figure shareholding of senior bureaucrat
A key bureaucrat in the Home Affairs department’s cybersecurity area is a shareholder in one of Australia’s biggest cybersecurity companies.
- by Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie
Dutton ignored warnings as offshore processing show ‘rolls on’, says Labor
Then-minister Peter Dutton was sent a briefing note about the audit, and he simply indicated he had “noted” the report without having a discussion with his department.
- by Michael Bachelard, Nick McKenzie and Angus Thompson
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Drugs, guns, corruption: Australia paid suspect companies to run offshore detention
Former ASIO boss finds Home Affairs failed to conduct adequate due diligence when issuing contracts that led to public money being paid to suspected criminals and corrupt officials.
- by Nick McKenzie, Michael Bachelard and Amelia Ballinger
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Sovereign Borders wasted and mismanaged millions, claims senior official
A senior Home Affairs bureaucrat has detailed grave moral and integrity concerns about waste and mismanagement in Australia’s controversial offshore detention regime.
- by Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
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Undercover cops did a Hollywood-style job under management more like Utopia
“The situation is not ideal,” deadpanned the investigator who drew attention to the failings of the AFP’s undercover program. That’s an understatement.
- by Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie
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Undercover and alone: How the AFP mishandled its most endangered officers
Australia’s undercover police live a dangerous double life, lying for a living and surviving on their wits. A devastating report shows how they were let down by the agency supposed to protect them.
- by Nick McKenzie, Michael Bachelard and Amelia Ballinger
Pezzullo’s fallen empire nothing to be missed
While the hawkish Pezzullo can take much credit for running Operation Sovereign Borders and other hardline border security operations, the Home Affairs empire he built and oversaw never worked as intended and has failed at critical junctures.
- by Nick McKenzie
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Failures on quarantine contract helped sink Pezzullo
The decision by the ousted Home Affairs secretary to direct a government contract to his lobbyist friend’s firm without declaring it was among the factors in his dismissal.
- by Nick McKenzie, Michael Bachelard and James Massola
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Government quietly changes secretary payout requirements ahead of Pezzullo findings
A new ruling signed off by the Remuneration Tribunal on Friday appears to revoke the lucrative compensation obligations owed to department secretaries if they are found to breach their code of conduct duties.
- by Lisa Visentin
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