👇Sunlight lifts fog off the floor of the Barrington Tops👇.
Today in the Administrative Review Tribunal I’ll be trying to use #FOI sunlight to lift Govt generated fog. Regular citizens get tried in open courts while public servants get tried in secrecy. Why? #Pezzullo #auspol
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So remarkably indiscreet & inappropriate, a former PS Commissioner was engaged to investigate.
As a result #Pezzullo was dismissed for 14 disciplinary offences.
His many speeches & orations, most of which were famous for their pretension & hilarity, have been expunged from the website.
#auspol
The refusal to release the #Pezzullo investigation report highlights a culture of secrecy across the PS & #Labor govt.
Pezzullo’s rule in Home Affairs ended Nov 2023 after masses of communications he’d had with Scott Briggs (a Liberal Party “power broker”) were leaked to the media.
#auspol
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Those journalists, and the editors who sign off their copy, should read Briggs’ report which, redacted as it is, provides chapter and verse on #Pezzullo ’s disgraceful behaviour.
This is straight out of the #Trump criminal playbook… #Pezzullo was sacked from his public service job due to misconduct. He was also stripped of his OA (Order of Australia) medal.
So what does #Dutton do? THIS 👇🤦♀️
#TemuTrump #ausvotes #Election2025 #AusPol
Take a tour through Mike Pezzullo’s Canberra palazzo House hunters with a cool $3 million looki...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/18/mike-pezzullo...
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Event Attributes
The interests of citizens in domestic security are sorely in need of better friends and advocates. #auspol #pezzullo
Lynelle 'Briggs’ conclusions were damning. She alleged #Pezzullo had repeatedly breached the APS Code of Conduct, used his position as a Departmental Secretary to gain a benefit or advantage for himself ..'
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'For a decade, #Pezzullo led the department that various inquiries have found was not doing enough to safeguard the visa system from exploitation.'
'Sources said #Pezzullo had tried to ingratiate himself with both Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese to protect his job.'
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"The miracle is he survived for as long as he did but I always thought he would get caught by his capacity to make enemies.
“He has left a trail of blood in home affairs which I think will see the organisation broken up now.”
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“He has created a persona of enormous drive and focus but that comes at a tremendous price of being destructive of everyone around him,” the ex-colleague said.
“I always felt he flew close to the...
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“His brazen attempts to manipulate the political process and his failure to respect the boundaries between politics and the public service mean that his position is untenable,” Senator McKim...
'Mr Albanese said it was appropriate Mr #Pezzullo stand aside during the probe. The Public Service Code of Conduct requires bureaucrats to act in an apolitical and independent manner, and to be open and accountable in their...
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www.themonthly.com.au/the-politics/rachel-with... via @THEMONTHLY
'The government has now asked Department of Home Affairs secretary Michael #Pezzullo to report back on why Border Force made the disclosure, including whether there was any political...
#Pezzullo 'has consistently defended his department's decision to award #Paladin $532 million in government contracts.'
