Why is Immigration Minister Tony Burke dodging the issue of the Bonnie Blue visa? He has been more than happy to declare his willingness to intervene and use his powers to revoke visas sooner.
For the uninitiated, Bonnie Blue is a British sex worker now living in Queensland on a visa.
During Schoolies Week, he plans to travel to the Gold Coast to offer free sex to ‘barely legal 18-year-olds’ as long as they allow him to film the encounter and upload it to his Only Fans account.
Although she sleeps with a wide range of men of all races, ages and appearances, she does not deny that her most prolific and controversial content involves sexual acts with ‘barely legal’ teenagers.
“There are two reasons,” he told the Daily Mail.
‘First: the teen category has been the most searched category online for a long time, people have always done it with schoolgirls. And I thought: there’s a gap in the market for someone to be with a schoolboy. If that’s how we want to express it.
‘From a business point of view, I knew there was a huge gap that I could (exploit). And sleeping with 18-year-olds makes the content much more relatable to younger subscribers.”
He has started a petition to have his visa revoked on grounds of character and the discord his actions are causing in the community. So far more than 20,000 people have signed it.
Bonnie Blue says “there’s a gap in the market for someone to be with a schoolboy” and that’s why she’s heading to Schoolies Week to target “barely legal” 18-year-olds looking for new content.
Burke has previously said he would “consider denying and canceling visas to anyone seeking to incite discord in Australia.”
He recently used those powers to reject a visa application submitted by Trump supporter Candace Owens, whose offensive comments included anti-Semitic remarks.
When the Immigration Minister intervened in that case he said Owens had the “capacity to incite discord” so it was best to keep her out of Australia.
But Burke doesn’t seem to want to extend that approach to Bonnie Blue. Why not?
Child safety expert Kristi McVee noted that “if this were a male creator (OnlyFans) targeting ‘barely legal’ young women, we’d be up in arms, calling them pedophiles.”
It’s hard to disagree that if Bonnie Blue were a male sex worker targeting “barely legal” 18-year-olds, Burke would certainly use her powers. Condemn the behavior on principle.
If Bonnie Blue were a sex worker targeting “barely legal” 18-year-old women, there’s no doubt Tony Burke (above) would use his powers to block her entry into Australia.
But when Daily Mail Australia contacted Burke to find out whether or not he was willing to act as things really are, he didn’t even bother to respond.
When we followed up on the request, not content to let it bury its head in the sand, one of the minister’s staff confirmed that the immigration department would do its job in the usual way – whatever that means – but the Minister could not comment on the matter. individual cases.
Actually? Although in the past he has been more than happy to comment on “individual cases” when it suits him.
It’s hard not to conclude that Burke hides behind departmental due process when it suits him, but will break that restraint when political expediency demands it.
That’s not the case (yet) when it comes to Bonnie Blue.
Perhaps that will change if momentum grows for Burke to take action.
Sex work is the oldest profession in the world, as the saying goes. That famous saying took hold after an 1889 story by Rudyard Kipling that referenced this notion.
The situation involving Bonnie Blue has nothing to do with stigmatizing sex work. Concerns about his actions are limited to the context of the way he practices his profession during Schoolies.
While those targeted are consenting adults, however narrowly, the change.org petition claims that Bonnie Blue is a “predatory sex worker,” adding that she “finds (in schoolchildren) the perfect opportunity to find young children to exploit and record sexual information. content to sell’.
Immigration Minister Tony Burke has decided to see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil, for now. In stark contrast to his harsh comments on other issues when it suits him politically.
But when Daily Mail Australia contacted Burke about Bonnie Blue (above) to find out whether or not he was willing to act as things really are, he didn’t even bother to respond, writes Peter van Onselen.
