Andrew Giles

let me just get this straight.

So Direction 99 failed under the previous Andrew Giles experiment.

Yeah.

So then he's hand-passed it over.

I know there was a lot of talk yesterday about Direction 110.

That replaced Andrew Giles' failed Direction 99.

It all gets a little confusing, I know.

But is it government directions that...

Now, Saturday Telegraph examined the official biographies of Labor frontbenchers on their websites and party websites, along with their maiden speeches, revealing most have chosen to highlight their work as lawyers, government staffers, and for unions before being elected.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers did a PhD on Paul Keating, while Andrew Giles represented asylum seekers on the Tampa.

The PM worked as a bank officer before becoming a Labor Party official and advisor to Bob Carr.

Some of the only ones with real business experience are Regional Development Minister Kirsty-- rather Kristy McBain, who runs a plumbing business, Small Business Minister Anne Aly, who ran a hot dog stand called Snags Aussie Dogs, and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, who did a paper round before starting a training company.

She's already been shown to have not spent... ..the money properly with other sporting events and taking her husband and stuff.

But, you know, Andrew Giles, for example, who was the minister who Albo really should have cut loose and quickly when he basically sent the government all at sea on its most sensitive issue, which is, of course, immigration and asylum seeker detention.

And that was a policy issue that he simply couldn't manage in his actual job as a minister... rather than a sort of separate personal scandal, if you like.

And Albo stuck by him.

He picks and sticks.

And so, you know, even... with Andrew Giles, for example, as the immigration minister, where it's clearly just the biggest stuff up, the biggest bungle with all those, you know, criminal asylum seekers being forced to be released into the community because the government basically hasn't done its homework.

I mean, that is about as bad as it gets for a Labor government always fighting, you know, to prove that it's not soft on borders.

And that was allowed to happen.