Sky News host Chris Kenny says Kristina Keneally is a “failed state premier” who now runs Labor’s border security policy despite having only “five minutes’ of experience in federal parliament.
Mr Kenny said Senator Keneally had “absolutely no political, policy or practical experience” dealing with border security issues and urged Labor to stop “playing games with this crucial national security issue”. “Keneally refuses my requests for an interview, as she has done again today,” he said. “Also Kerryn Phelps, the former independent MP who came up with this hare-brained scheme, refuses to discuss the issue with me.
I have grave doubts about the motivations of activists in this field, and worry that these refugees have been talked into a tactic here that might prevent them going to the US and leave them in a detention or in limbo,” he said. “I have seen these activists at work, they tell lies and play political games rather than simply try to look after the best interests of refugees.
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