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Home Affairs’ regulation of migration agents is not effective, says an auditor-general’s report.

‘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.

  • 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.

  • Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
The Department of Home Affairs’ cybersecurity guru owns a six-figure shareholding in one of the country’s biggest tech supply companies, CyberCX, which is a major contractor to government departments, including his own.

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.

  • Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie

Buck stops with nobody in embarrassing fallout from Home Affairs scandals

A key principle looks to have been abandoned when it comes to serious allegations regarding contracts to run offshore processing of asylum seekers.

  • The Age's View
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

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.

  • Michael Bachelard, Nick McKenzie and Angus Thompson
Ex-ASIO chief Dennis Richardson has found serious problems in the way Home Affairs let billions of dollars worth of contracts.

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.

  • Nick McKenzie, Michael Bachelard and Amelia Ballinger
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Home Affairs assistant secretary Derek Elias raised concerns with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal that taxpayer funds were wasted on Australia’s offshore detention regime.

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.

  • Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard

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.

  • Michael Bachelard and Nick McKenzie
An anonymous source spells out the dangers of working as an undercover police officer.

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.

  • Nick McKenzie, Michael Bachelard and Amelia Ballinger
Former Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo

We must never again see a public servant like Pezzullo

The appalling episode we have just witnessed should never be repeated.

  • The Age's View

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