As the fallout continues over the conduct of Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo, the Albanese government will be grappling with how to re-establish institutional checks on power.
, the Albanese government stood Pezzullo aside on full pay pending an investigation.
There is no suggestion either Pezzullo or Briggs acted illegally or corruptly. Briggs was doing what lobbyists do – making connections between powerful people, carrying messages, and keeping an ear out for any business opportunities.
It was an advertisement for continuity, and it was based on a sound principle: any government that wants public servants to provide fearless, apolitical advice should not gratuitously sack them.James Brickwood Court judgments by the time of Albanese’s election had already revealed what the royal commission confirmed:But even though Campbell was the departmental secretary overseeing it, and the royal commission found she had done “nothing of substance” when she learned of its illegality, Labor kept her in well-paid employment in Defence. Only when the demand for her dismissal reached a crescendo was she suspended without pay.
Former colleagues and politicians, speaking anonymously to discuss private matters, say Pezzullo tapped into another prevailing ethos of the Abbott and Morrison governments.
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