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LNP Government

Department of Home Affairs contradicts every sensible principle of organisation design – Pearls and Irritations

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This is the Department Peter Dutton controlled I meant didn’t wasn’t it? He had is finger on the pulse of Home Affairs and Immigration didn’t he? Or wishing it was on the pulse of two opers a major decision saying Yes rather than Nope for spud. All forensic examinations by experts reported that these departments were dead and should have been buried. The cause MURDERED by the LNP due to lack of care and policy.

What a fabulous trove The Pezzullo Papers are. The hundreds of recently disclosed text messages sent by the Home Affairs Secretary Mr Michael Pezzullo to a person described as a “Liberal Party powerbroker” are morbidly fascinating. Poor Pezzullo – in a few days he attracted as much public commentary, most of it unflattering, as platoons of traditionally reticent departmental Secretaries would cop in their lifetimes and afterwards.

 there is more than enough evidence that the regulation of official behaviour by values and principles, including “stewardship” for Secretaries, and a code of conduct, has been insufficient. Thus, the relevant provisions in the Public Service Act should be thoroughly re-thought with a view to making the rules less ambiguous, possibly more prescriptive and better able to support a non-American kind of public service. ( The Steve Bannon Principle a Partisan Public Service)

Mr Pezzullo’s present prominence is a reminder of the credit he’s been given for his hand in the creation of the Home Affairs portfolio. This may be his gravest mistake as the portfolio contradicts just about every sensible principle of organisation design that can be imagined. It’s as if it had been set up to be the tragic failure it has been. And it’s not as if it is too big – there are many bigger agencies. Nor is too powerful – there are many more powerful, such misplaced concerns likely being agitated by Pezzullo’s pushfulness and willingness to attract attention and create enemies. The real problem is that the portfolio is organisationally nonsensical. Therefore, the Government should take the chance to:

Source: Department of Home Affairs contradicts every sensible principle of organisation design – Pearls and Irritations

Homeland Security

“The Voice behind the Curtain – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

Exposure of Pezzullo raises more questions about Collaery prosecution

with Porter forced out of politics, and Pezzullo unlikely to ever return, there’s at least some sense of justice slowly working in relation to the appalling persecution of Collaery and Witness K.”

It now looks passing strange that Pezzullo gave evidence on the need for secrecy in the name of national security when he was so eager to share confidential material — freshly handed to the prime minister and his own minister — with an unelected party machine man and businessman.

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Immigration

Top public servant apologises for ‘significant’ error in Australia’s offshore immigration processing | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian

Michael Pezzullo during Senate estimates

When the LNP were Government Pezzullo was very much “Minister Dutton’s Spokesperson on Immigration” One Might well ask if he remained so after the May election and why Clair O’Neill asked “7 times” if all legal requirements had been fulfilled. It seems the Opposition was fully informed of the delay to do so and didn’t seem to need to be informed

The home affairs secretary, Michael Pezzullo, on Monday revealed that the department was aware as far back as January 2021 that the designation allowing offshore processing at Nauru would need to be renewed, but failed to alert the home affairs minister, Claire O’Neil. This was despite O’Neil asking on “at least seven” occasions if legal requirements for Operation Sovereign Borders were in place.

The evidence to Senate estimates blunts the Coalition’s attack on Labor over the issue as it also seeks to weaponise the abolition of temporary protection visas (TPVs) against the Albanese government. The Coalition has said the government’s failure to renew the designation of Nauru when it lapsed in October shows Labor is soft on borders.

The home affairs department’s lapse meant Nauru was not approved for immigration processing for four months

Source: Top public servant apologises for ‘significant’ error in Australia’s offshore immigration processing | Australian immigration and asylum | The Guardian