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The Home Affairs Minister has taken to local radio this morning to set the recent au pair controversy straight and outline the difference between being criminally corrupt and just helping out a mate.

Peter Dutton spoke to Clive Overell this morning on KBBL South Betoota’s Breakfast With The Right People programme, where he distanced himself from claims that he should be held accountable for his actions.

“There is a difference between just doing a favour for an old mate and being extremely corrupt to the point where half of Parliment thinks you belong in prison,” said Dutton.

“When you’re in a position of power such as mine, it’s part and parcel of the job. What is the point in having power if you’re not going to use it?”

“Honestly. People on the left think that they’d be some sort of Ghandi-like figure if they had as much power as say, I do. Well, I don’t believe that. I’m just helping out one of the boys. Dogging the boys in politics is a testament to political suicide. You get what I mean?”

Leaving the KBBL Studios, Dutton was accosted by five youngish activists from the Polytechnic College’s Socialist Alliance who’d taken time out of their busy morning of tweeting witty quips about him to confront him in the flesh.

They shouted at him as he walked the seventeen metres from the front door to his waiting comcar. Dutton made eye contact with one but kept on walking.

More to come.