Former top cop Christine Nixon reveals that, as rorters and criminals flooded the visa system, the authorities went missing.
A focus on stopping migrant boats as millions of people arrived on planes with inadequate scrutiny meant authorities missed widespread exploitation and abuse in Australia’s visa system, according to the former top cop who led the Albanese government’s immigration rorts inquiry.
“We were told the department’s energy went into the boats [with asylum seekers] but people were just flying into Australia in their millions,” she said. “Border force has very limited investigative capacity. The federal police is spread thin enforcing all types of commonwealth crimes and also has limited investigative capacity. It gets even worse when you look at enforcement within the overseas education system,” Nixon said.
She said one case involved a 50-something year-old woman from Northern China who entered Australia on a student visa to study English.
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