Home Affairs head Michael Pezzullo has described social media as a “cesspit” while former Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Peter Varghese warned it… Read More
Department of Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo made it very clear he has no intention of setting new performance targets for processing citizenship applications, as he explained to a Senate committee why he refused to accept an auditor-general’s recommendation. Read More
Top Home Affairs official, Michael Pezzullo, says he has seen "a dark kaleidoscope of future stormy possibilities" which threaten a great cost on the nation, but Australia has seen and dealt with these types of challenges before. Read More
Former Westpac chief executive and Hawke-era Treasury deputy secretary David Morgan has added his voice to those who argue the Australian Public Service needs leaders who don’t fear the axe. Read More
Can Australian public sector outsourcing practices prevent Paladin becoming its Carillion moment? A new Outsourcing Playbook offers lessons from failure. Read More
Viewed through the prism of military analogy, as is favoured by Home Affairs boss Michael Pezzullo, the growing cyber threats is a war with no established doctrine. Is cyber martial law the answer? Read More
The high risk of political corruption is the main reason for special ICAC-style oversight, but governments must be allowed to govern, says former WA Premier Geoff Gallop. Doing so in the public interest, he argues, is a lot more complex than it sounds. Read More
Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo worries that some of his colleagues know too little of the origins and principles that underpin the Westminster system, and their role within it. Read More
The Department of Home Affairs has agreed to tell a Senate committee what led border control officials to advise Minister Peter Dutton there was a… Read More
A Dutton government could shake the earth under the APS given his right-wing ideology; a Morrison or other middle-of-the-road challenger’s government less so. Read More
Michael Pezzullo preemptively defends the new Department of Home Affairs structure from "those who would seek to unravel those linkages" and argues his bailiwick offers the best chance of restoring public trust in governments in a chaotic world. Read More
Security issues and claims based on unauthorised disclosures to the media have taken centre stage as the Senate's post-budget estimates hearings kicked off in Canberra. Read More
Would a Shorten Labor government bring another night of the long knives? Verona Burgess thinks some executives could be seen as turn-coats, but wiser heads might prevail. Read More
Australia's sixth Women in Leadership conference will focus on developing leadership skills and driving the advancement of women. Hear from female leaders across federal, state and local agencies as well as key elected representatives striving for gender equality in public life. Read More
Sometimes, exchanges in Senate estimates start to sound like the Monty Python skit about the argument clinic. Read More
