Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally sacked his factional ally and incompetent Immigration Minister Andrew Giles following two years of self-inflicted disasters and constant mismanagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new minister must do better, and they will be judged on four measures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Ensure Australia\u2019s Net Overseas Migration doesn\u2019t overshoot the Government target \u2014 migration under Minister Giles exceeded every Government target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Clean up the mess that is Labor\u2019s response to the NZYQ court case and demonstrate how you are making public safety a priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Closely monitor the operation of Ministerial Direction 110 and ensure it is not used to allow criminal non-citizens to remain in Australia and reoffend, as happened with the previous direction introduced by Minister Giles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Stop the boats that have restarted under Labor and stop the asylum seekers arriving by plane. The monthly number of asylum seekers arriving by plane had been trending upwards under Minister Giles, with 2380 asylum seekers arrived arriving in May, the highest monthly number since Labor was elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister Giles was a prime example of why Australians don\u2019t trust Labor on immigration or national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australians have paid the price for Labor\u2019s incompetence when it comes to immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister Giles\u2019 record of mismanagement makes for sorry reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Record migration of 528,000 arrivals, as Australians endured housing shortages, record rent increases and a cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Seven murderers, 37 sex offenders, and 72 violent offenders released into the community with weak, or no, supervision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 More than 150 non-citizens awaiting deportation were released into the community with the wrong visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Removed the ankle bracelet from a criminal released from immigration detention, who went on to allegedly bash and rob a grandmother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Signed and introduced Ministerial Direction 99 that saw non-citizen criminals who should have been deported allowed to remain in Australia, with at least one going on to allegedly commit murder, then allowed the Prime Minister to blame public servants for the mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 More than 42,500 asylum seekers arrived in Australia by plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Skipped three important meetings with his department about the mass release of hardened criminals from immigration detention and instead promoted the Voice referendum and flew to the United Kingdom to attend a Labour Party conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Tried to ram through legislation with no consultation and debate and when the Coalition recommended sensible amendments following a Senate Inquiry he dropped the \u201curgent\u201d legislation and it hasn\u2019t been seen since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Invented a non-existent drone surveillance program when under pressure in a media interview then blamed his department, which actually gave clear written advice there was no such program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Was the star attraction at multiple Victorian Labor party fundraisers where he was lobbied on visa issues as he spent his first six months in the job rattling the tin for the Andrews Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 For seven months he did nothing about the Nixon Review which had highlighted serious organised crime operating within the visa system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister Giles was a failure in the Immigration portfolio and Prime Minister Albanese must own that failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prime Minister Albanese gave Minister Giles a job he was ill-equipped to perform and refused to sack him despite a long-running series of mishaps and mismanagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister Giles told an ALP conference that he did not support boat turnbacks, which were a key plank of the Coalition\u2019s Operation Sovereign Borders that stopped the influx of illegal boat arrivals under the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor governments, and yet the Prime Minister still gave him the job as Immigration Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is no surprise that when Minister Giles became Immigration Minister the asylum seeker boats started again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giles now joins a sorry club of former Labor Immigration Ministers in this Government that includes Chris Bowen, Tony Burke, and Brendan O\u2019Connor, who were ministers when:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 1200 people, including children, died at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 8,000 children were forcibly placed in detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 50,000 people arrived on more than 800 boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 The cost to taxpayers of managing illegal boat arrivals blew out by $10.3 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Labor can\u2019t be trusted to keep our borders secure, and they can\u2019t be trusted to manage immigration in a sustainable way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally sacked his factional ally and incompetent Immigration Minister Andrew Giles following two years of self-inflicted disasters and constant mismanagement. The new minister must do better, and they will be judged on four measures: \u2022 Ensure Australia\u2019s Net Overseas Migration doesn\u2019t overshoot the Government target \u2014 migration under Minister Giles … Continue reading “Giles gone but Labor still can\u2019t be trusted on immigration”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28124,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28123\/revisions\/28124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}