This is Peter Craig Dutton, Australian Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, millionaire property speculator, alleged closet racist and former Queensland police officer.
Twelve months ago government and national intelligence circles were unhappy about his elevation to powerful Tsar.
Dutton's portfolios are now under audit and review as they merge and grow.
The new super agency
created by home affairs minister Peter Dutton is facing unprecedented
government scrutiny, amid a series of audits and reviews into visa arrangements
and anti-corruption measures.
The federal government
merged a large number of Australian government agencies into one super agency
headed by Dutton earlier this year.
In an unprecedented
government initiative, Dutton is overseeing more than 13,000 staff across the
immigration department, Australian Border Force (ABF), Australian Federal
Police, Australian Crime and Intelligence Commission, Austrac and the
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
The agency is absorbing
a range of functions from the attorney-general's department, the department of
infrastructure and the prime minister's department, and will have a total
budget of more than $2 billion.
The arrangement was
particularly controversial because there was no recommendation to actually
create the agency; its establishment rests on the contested assumption that
centralising these government agencies will ensure greater efficiency across
immigration, law enforcement and other government areas.
But the new agency is
now facing unprecedented scrutiny as home affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo
grapples with how to bring disparate government entities under the umbrella of
a single agency.
It is currently
considering an additional six audits into staff integrity measures, payment
standards, cape class patron vessel support, intelligence operations,
collection of visa revenue and the tourist refund scheme.
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