The Latest Breaking News from Mike Pezzullo

Mike Pezzullo, one of Canberra’s most powerful and certainly most controversial public servants, cannot survive the revelation of the trove of text messages showing him blatantly inserting himself into the political process.

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Leaked texts between Pezzullo and Scott Briggs spark widespread calls for home affairs secretary to be sacked

The revelations in the Nine newspapers that Mike Pezzullo, secretary of the powerful Home Affairs department, shared with Liberal Party powerbroker Scott Briggs are certainly extraordinary. But, just like the revelations about Robodebt from the royal commission, they must not be treated as an isolated case but as evidence of…

A probe into text messages showing Home Affairs chief Mike Pezzullo seeking to influence the Liberal Party has led to him stepping aside.

The home affairs minister Clare O’Neil said she was ‘aware’ of reporting by Nine of the texts, which include comments about political figures

Mozammil Gulamabbas Bhojani was convicted of bribing two Nauruan officials with more than $120,000

Yesterday, Stephen Mitchell was sentenced to more than 13 years in jail for a raft of child sex offences, which police had been investigating prior to his employment with the Department of Home Affairs.

The Home Affairs secretary says his department 'messed up' by accidentally allowing Australia's offshore processing policy to lapse.

Home Affairs department head Mike Pezzullo said human error resulted in legislation designating Nauru as a regional processing site lapsing.

One of the nation's most senior public servants has rejected findings his department was not effective in the management of a multibillion-dollar contract.