One of the two au pairs Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton spared from deportation in 2015 was coming to Australia to work for a couple that was known to the minister from his time as a Queensland police officer, leaked emails reveal.
New details are emerging about two cases in which Mr Dutton used his ministerial powers to stop the Border Force deporting young women suspected of planning to work in Australia despite holding tourist visas.
Departmental emails were leaked to Labor senator Kimberley Kitching, who sits on a Senate committee that will soon investigate the two interventions.
The latest revelations relate to a young Italian woman who had her visa cancelled when she arrived at Brisbane’s international airport in June 2015.
