The tall poppy who fixes government, makes it work and do things it otherwise could not is the natural target for those who want to critique policy, without openly challenging it.
I was a reasonably small-business owner, full of ideas and struggling to get the Australian government to work on them. To deal with him as secretary of the Department of Home Affairs was to be in a pressure cooker, but one where the best idea had a chance of winning. It was a place moving forward where do nothing wasn’t an option for people who wanted to stay long in his good books.
From Iraq policy, border protection and now critical infrastructure cyber, he sees the big issues and can reliably ensure that the business of the portfolio cannot destroy a government. He’s been so successful at it, he basically has a department of being Pezzullo. The department of getting stuff done.He cuts a much more American than Australian figure. In the States no one would blink at the head of the FBI or NSA having an opinion on the geopolitics of the day.
Enter the new government which was set on more or less the same border policies, but these do not sit well with part of the party. Pezzullo, the tall poppy of the service, is theHe was there when the coalition did things they didn’t like, so it must be his fault. So people leak everything they can about him. No evidence of any corruption, just enough gossip to keep him in the headlines and embarrassed.
It will have an impact on border protection and China policy. Usually, one waits until after the war to turn on Coriolanus. The government held out so long on standing him down because no one wants to be the minister who has a boat arrival when they fired the secretary who built the system – it’s a political disaster in the making.
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