Word has spread that au pairs are free to enter Australia, and now boatloads of qualified nannies have hit international waters with the full expectation Peter Dutton’s office will intervene to allow their entry into Australia.
This comes as an Italian nanny was released from detention after Peter Dutton’s chief of staff asked the most senior border official what could be done to help “the boss’s mate”, according to an incendiary new account of the au pair affair.
Roman Quaedvlieg, the man Mr Dutton hand-picked as the first Australian Border Force (ABF) commissioner, has divulged new details of the lengths to which the Minister’s office went in securing the release of the Italian national in 2015.
Mr Quaedvlieg, who was ousted from the Border Force job in March, has lodged a submission to a Senate inquiry into Mr Dutton’s use of ministerial power to grant visas to two European au pairs.
His submission came after watching former colleagues give hours of evidence to the committee’s hearing in Canberra on Wednesday.
