Creepy Pete goes mad with power

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Via The Australian:

Tensions in Malcolm Turnbull’s cabinet have been exposed after Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said there was a “case to be made” about expanding the powers of Australian cyber spies, ­rebuking Foreign Minister Julie Bishop who earlier claimed there was no need for enhanced security changes.

The clash followed a series of incidents in which the two ministers have been at odds, including over the treatment of South African farmers and the establishment of the Home Affairs super department.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.