I must correct my former colleague. I was persuaded to set up the department of home affairs, in the end, by my own team.
of the creation of the Department of Home Affairs is not right. So, reluctant as I am to correct my learned friend, let me set the record straight.
Then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announces the appointment of Peter Dutton as Minister for Home Affairs in 2017. Also pictured is then Attorney General George Brandis.
The history demonstrates that this not particularly original idea was not a singular project of then secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Security Mike Pezzullo let alone Peter Dutton, although they both supported it. Equally, it is true that the then Attorney General, George Brandis, opposed it just as he had opposed it when it was reconsidered during Tony Abbott’s time as PM.
Home Affairs Secretary Michael Pezzullo with then Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton in 2020.The principal advocate for this reform in my time was, in fact, my own department of Prime Minister and Cabinet which formally recommended the move in their “incoming government” brief to me after the 2016 election.
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