Is Peter Dutton deliberately trying to sabotage the deal to resettle refugees from Manus Island and Nauru? Or is the Immigration Minister simply just insensitive, undiplomatic and incompetent?

Either way, the Immigration Minister is flirting with fire when he asserts Australia will not take any Costa Rica refugees from the United States until the Americans deliver on their agreement to take refugees from Manus Island and Nauru.

He also revealed that not only he, but Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, misled the Australian people when they asserted point blank, repeatedly, that there was no connection whatsoever between the two arrangements.

Dutton's interview with Andrew Bolt on Sky News was extraordinary in several respects, but mostly because it implied a lack of trust in the United States to deliver on the deal Malcolm Turnbull negotiated with Barack Obama.