Qld judge likens Groves to Skase A judge has pondered if bankrupt childcare mogul Eddy Groves could turn into another Christopher Skase as he applies to live in Canada as an employee of his wife. Viryan Collins-Rubie has told the Federal Court in Brisbane of her plan to pay Mr Groves $C5000 ($A4850) a month to run the financial affairs of a proposed English language college in Vancouver. But Mr Groves' bankruptcy trustee PPB Advisory argues the co-founder of the multi-billion dollar collapsed ABC Learning Centres group is a flight risk and wants him to remain in Australia. Mr Groves, who returned to Australia from the US on Thursday morning with his wife, after six months in North America and Asia, admitted he no longer had a career. "I don't have an occupation, I'm unemployed," he said, after surrendering his Canadian passport to the bankruptcy trustee. Outside court, Mr Groves vowed to return to Australia whenever he was required in court. "I just signed an undertaking to the court to return within 28 days," he told reporters. After lunch, Ms Collins-Rubie told the court that her plans for an English language college in Vancouver were dependent on her husband being allowed to live in Canada. "My husband would be looking after the financial aspects of the business," she said, adding Mr Groves was not involved with her two existing English language colleges in Australia. Justice John Logan, however, asked rhetorically if Mr Groves might emulate the disgraced tycoon Christopher Skase, who fled to the Spanish island of Majorca in the early 1990s. "Is this going to be another Skase case, as it were?" he said. Mr Groves' solicitor Paul Lynch argued that his client had co-operated with the bankruptcy trustees, and was unlike Mr Skase. The lawyer for PPB Advisory, Carolyn Conway, said Mr Groves needed to remain in Australia to be cross-examined. "Mr Groves is a flight risk and his absence from the jurisdiction would make administration over his estate less efficient," she said. Ms Collins-Rubie admitted a company she directs, Kanbeki Pty Ltd, had paid $100,000 to $200,000 to achieve a $475,000 settlement in a legal case between Mr Groves and financial service firm Austock Group. She confirmed she had paid $6000 for her husband's return business class flight to Australia from the US, and was funding his legal defence. The couple also sold three properties at Runaway Bay on the Gold Coast for $10 million to $11 million in 2008, she agreed under cross-examination. Mr Groves was declared a bankrupt in January while he was overseas, four years after ABC Learning Centres collapsed with debts of between $1.6 billion and $2.7 billion. The case has been adjourned until Friday morning.