Asylum seekers an 'Achilles heel' as Andrew Giles 'not up for the job'

The Daily Telegraph’s Joe Hildebrand has called Australia’s reoccurring asylum seeker problem an “Achilles heel for Labor” as he expressed concern Immigration Minister Andrew Giles “is not up for the job”. “It has been for a long time, it caused a great schism in the Party, it comes up at just about every Party conference,” he told Sky News Australia host Steve Price. “This has obviously not been a good week for the government on immigration detention. “Labor needs a really competent immigration minister to make this issue go away. “If immigration is working for Labor it means you are never hearing about it.”