Hypocritical Pezzullo brought undone by the media he railed at

“Bottom feeders”, Mike Pezzullo once described journalists as, after an embarrassing story was cited in senate estimates — itself another process he loathed. The only journalists Pezzullo liked were those he could “turn”, “steer, assist, work with” to produce “a great story for the government”, to use his own words.

Now the “bottom feeders” — two of the very best, Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard — have sent Pezzullo packing, after the government today announced that his appointment as Home Affairs secretary was “terminated”, based on “a recommendation to [prime minister Albanese] by the secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Australian Public Service commissioner, following an independent inquiry by Lynelle Briggs”.