It’s significant that Ministers seem to remain unnamed Morrison and Dutton obviously spring to mind. The buck seems to have stopped with Dept head M. Pezzullo a significantly vocal spokesperson when Peter Dutton was the Minister.

Dutton’s track record of incompetence in all the ministries he held stands alone as a record achievement. So much so one might wonder if he was actually the most competent of LNP politicians achieving exactly what was asked of him by his LNP leaders at the time, particularly Tony Abbott and the party’s backroom. It’s is why he believes he’s been rewarded as today’s leader of the opposition.

Australia’s Home Affairs Department oversaw the payment of millions of taxpayer dollars to powerful Pacific Island politicians through a chain of suspect contracts as it sought to maintain controversial offshore asylum seeker processing centres.

Home Affairs secretary Pezzullo told a parliamentary committee in April 2019: “We’re not aware of … any demonstrable instances of likely, possible or reasonably suspected corruption.”

Source: Paladin, Canstruct, Broadspectrum implicated in suspect payments to Pacific politicians