Good afternoon. Michael Pezzullo – one of the nation’s most powerful bureaucrats – has stood aside as head of the home affairs department pending an investigation into alleged partisan texts.
Pezzullo is alleged to have sent a series of texts to Liberal powerbroker Scott Briggs advocating for rightwing politicians to be put in charge as minister for his department, potentially breaching a code of conduct requiring public servants to be apolitical and independent.
