Dutton’s debacle: How the faux-tough immigration cops lost control of our borders

The Nixon review of how Australia’s visa systems are exploited hasn’t come out of the blue. We’ve known for a long time that there was something alarmingly wrong with the way the Immigration Department, and then Home Affairs as it became, was managing our visa system — especially the onshore humanitarian visa processing system.

An auditor-general report in late 2015 concluded: “There are weaknesses in almost all aspects of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s arrangements for managing visa holders’ compliance with their visa conditions.” In