Peter Dutton brought child refugee to Australia after lobbying from Nauru

Exclusive: Home affairs department told minister approving orphaned Rohingyan boy’s settlement could undermine its stance on boat arrivals

Peter Dutton approved a plan to bring a refugee child to Australia after lobbying from Nauru, despite warnings from his department that it would be seen as a contradiction of the policy not to resettle people in Australia who came by boat.

Dutton made the intervention on behalf of a stateless Rohingyan unaccompanied minor whose parents were murdered in front of him in Myanmar before he arrived at Christmas Island by boat in October 2013.

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