Climate change risks rank alongside counterterrorism and cyber security as a key priority for Australia’s home affairs department, according to a recent estimate hearing. On Feb. 13, the secretary for home affairs, Mike Pezzullo, faced questioning from Senator Alex Antic, who asked whether the department’s focus on climate change risks was “comedy [or] parody?” Pezzullo…

A veteran radio journalist has raised concerns about the effect propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is having on Chinese-speaking Australians after he discovered that state-sponsored propaganda had been hitting the airwaves for over twenty years in Sydney. Nick Wong, a former Wellington-based Chinese newspaper publisher, as well as a former member of the…

Cyber Security Shadow Minister James Paterson has raised concerns about the Labor government’s move to “dismantle” the Department of Home Affairs, warning that it could come at the expense of Australians’ safety. The comment comes after the Anthony Albanese led government released its first Administrative Arrangements Order (AAO) which announced a downsize of the Home…

One Nation Sen. Mark Latham has called for the defunding of the LGBTQIA+  performance and research enterprise the Department of Homo Affairs (DOHO), which has been operating from the Sydney Powerhouse museum free of charge. Latham on Thursday said that while there are lots of pressing needs around the state, starting with flood relief, the…

The Australian Department of Home Affairs aims to have more supervision over the algorithms of social media platforms and encryption technology to help tackle cyber abuse. Speaking at the parliamentary inquiry into internet safety on Feb.1, Brendan Dowling, the digital and technology policy head of the department of home affairs, said the department was increasingly…