Ahmed Zaoui's Counsel Rodney Harrison and Deborah Manning face the media outside the Supreme Court in Wellington today as they court deliberated on the bail of jailed Algerian refugee Ahmed Zaoui. Image by Kevin List

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Ahmed Zaoui's Counsel Rodney Harrison and Deborah Manning face the media outside the Supreme Court in Wellington today as they court deliberated on the bail of jailed Algerian refugee Ahmed Zaoui. Image by Kevin List
There is no better example of Australia’s politicised public service than its Home Affairs Secretary, Mike Pezzullo. In most other countries, he would have been the ideal conspirator in a coup, a tittletattler in the ranks, and bound to brief against those he did not like. Give him a dagger, and he was bound to use it. More
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