To move Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, a close factional ally of the Prime Minister and member of his praetorian guard, could cause more problems than it would solve.
Already a subscriber?In July 2008, about seven months after the Rudd Labor government was elected, a parliamentary committee visited what was then the recently constructed detention centre on Christmas Island.
On the same day, a boat carrying 58 people, including two crew, was intercepted 100 nautical miles north-west of Derby, Western Australia. It was the 45th boat to reach Australian waters that year. There is no comparison in scale with Rudd abolishing the Pacific solution, but the politics are still potent.
To this day, Peter Dutton, who was immigration minister at the height of the deportations, requires an around-the-clock, close personal security detail because of death threats stemming from the bikies he deported.Albanese wanted to show he was not Morrison and would rebuild the bridge across The Ditch. He promised Ardern to stop automatically repatriating every New Zealand citizen and apply a degree of common sense.
First, it would be regarded by his foes as an admission of culpability in that the deal with Ardern was flawed and second, who else would he move and why?
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