Paul J. Berating

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Home Affairs sheds hundreds — the empire built on border panic discovers a budget

Home Affairs is cutting hundreds of jobs to fit within its budget, with the secretary leaning on natural attrition before harder cuts by year's end.

Home Affairs is shedding hundreds because the budget's tight, which is the same building that grew like a mushroom under Dutton on the promise that border security needed every warm body it could find. Turns out the empire was disposable after all. Natural attrition is what you call sacking people when you don't want to hold a press conference about it.