The Home Affairs secretary told a Liberal powerbroker he would back the then prime minister’s plan to move the embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
are not suggesting any of the exchanges are corrupt or illegal, only that they were inappropriate for a senior public servant. In one message during the panel consultations, Pezzullo told Briggs he doubted Parkinson and Adamson “have their heart in” the proposed policy.
Pezzullo responded: “Got it. The bureaucracy will be useless on this. Will condescendingly tell the PM how he slipped up!”Briggs then told Pezzullo that Morrison was facing widespread criticism over the move, but said that “philosophically he doesn’t want to resile from it and believes it is a good thing to do”.
On December 1, Pezzullo again messaged Briggs to complain about the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: “We can do recognition immediately in my view but DFAT lawyers are holding out. I doubt that Parkinson and Adamson have their heart in it.” However, after the New Zealand terrorist attack in March 2019, Pezzullo forwarded to Briggs a briefing he had sent to his minister, Dutton, and the prime minister, containing the Home Affairs secretary’s initial assessment of the Christchurch killer’s “deluded manifesto”.
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