The home affairs minister Clare O’Neil said she was ‘aware’ of reporting by Nine of the texts, which include comments about political figures
the series of texts between Pezzullo and Liberal powerbroker, Scott Briggs, in which the home affairs secretary disparaged senior Coalition ministers and advocated for a right winger to be minister responsible for his department.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup According to the report, on 21 August, 2018, in the week that Peter Dutton challenged Malcolm Turnbull resulting in Scott Morrison replacing him as Liberal leader, Pezzullo texted Briggs about who would serve as home affairs minister.
When told by Briggs that Morrison was in front, Pezzullo reportedly replied: “Ready to serve. Same goes for Dutton too, of course.”“I don’t wish to interfere but you won’t be surprised to hear that in the event of ScoMo [Scott Morrison] getting up I would like to see [Peter] Dutton come back to HA [Home Affairs].”
“Not my business but you will need to be careful about rushing to capitalise at the polls. Punters hate that,” he reportedly said.
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