Barely a week goes by when the Department of Home Affairs isn’t under the blowtorch of media or political scrutiny.

In one way, the level of scrutiny is to be expected. When a department is so huge it takes in security, intelligence, immigration and policing functions, with some 14,000 staff under the one secretary – it’s inevitable.

The question is, should one department have so much power? 

Today, chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper Karen Barlow on the inner workings of the super department.

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Guest: Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Karen Barlow.

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