While the idea had been floated before, including by Scott Morrison when he was immigration minister after the 2013 election, there was a growing push within senior ranks of the government to make Immigration, Border Force, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) work together more closely under one portfolio. While Brexit dominated the discussion, Turnbull wanted to raise another matter with May: whether to create a “super department” modelled on the United Kingdom’s Home Office. The encounter with her old friend from Oxford, Malcolm Turnbull, in the city of Hangzhou, would lead to one of the biggest shake-ups of Australia’s security and intelligence agencies in history. Theresa May was less than two months into the British prime ministership when she met her Australian counterpart in September 2016, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size
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