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The new Home Affairs Department should be welcomed

18 July 2017

11:42 AM

18 July 2017

11:42 AM

The Prime Minister has today unveiled a national security ‘mega-department’, to be called, as guessed by the commentariat, the Department of Home Affairs, with Immigration Minister Peter Dutton at its head.

Some objections have also been raised from – yes, you guessed right – academia and the judiciary, who opine that such a mega-department, through its combined resources,  would exert greater powers of surveillance, containment and control.

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