Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil has stood by her embattled colleague Andrew Giles as the pressure mounts over the handling of several visa rulings. Follow live.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil is standing by her embattled colleague Andrew Giles as pressure on his role mounts over the handling of several visa rulings.when asked this morning if he should be sacked over the visa fracas.
“So I say to you again, Andrew Giles is a good minister. He’s diligent in his work. This is the right process dealing with this situation."He's actively reviewing about 30 cases that we're concerned about indeed he's already cancelled some of those visas."Before we dive into the best of the morning interviews, a quick refresher of where we landed yesterday.
It allowed criminal offenders to escape visa cancellation if they could demonstrate longstanding ties to Australia. The Coalition repeatedly threw questions at Giles in QT over the tribunal’s interpretation of Ministerial Direction 99 in several casesfronted Senate estimates where she made her own admission.
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