Ministerial responsibility shifts should be examined in Bondi investigation, experts say

A series of Labor national security shake-ups that shifted ministerial responsibility for ASIO and the AFP from the Home Affairs minister to the attorney-general and back again are under scrutiny amid calls for deeper post-Bondi investigations.

Experts questioned the decision to move the Australian Federal Police and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation into the attorney-general’s portfolio in Labor’s first term, a move that was reversed after the 2025 election when they were returned to the remit of Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.

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