Michael Pezzullo

Michael Pezzullo

Michael Pezzullo is Secretary, Department of Home Affairs following a machinery of government reorganisation in 2017. He was previously Secretary, Department of Immigration and Border Protection, and held senior roles in Customs, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Department of Defence, as well as senior advisor roles to a foreign minister and a leader of the opposition.

Articles by Michael Pezzullo

Michael Pezzullo's seven gathering storms: national security in the 2020s

March 13, 2019
By Michael Pezzullo

Defence

Top Home Affairs official, Michael Pezzullo, says he has seen “a dark kaleidoscope of future stormy possibilities” which threaten a great cost on the nation, but Australia has seen and dealt with these types of challenges before.
Pezzullo: Immigration department won't be trapped by history

June 2, 2016
By Michael Pezzullo

Features

SPEECH: The Commonwealth’s newest diarchy is less than a year into its integration and establishment of new national capability. The Immigration secretary says advanced skills and automation are its future.
Michael Pezzullo: empire of rules or commonwealth of ideas?

May 11, 2016
By Michael Pezzullo

Features

SPEECH: The secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection offers his top four ideas for a modern public service. The “empire of rules” cannot substitute for fresh ideas, he says.
Michael Pezzullo: settlement of the nation and where to now

February 3, 2015
By Michael Pezzullo

Features

Australia will always be a “settler nation”. But the new world order requires increasing engagement in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond, the Immigration and Border Protection Department secretary believes.