Q&A host Stan Grant tells off Finance Minister Katy Gallagher for ‘talking past’ an Afghan man
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Dramatic moment Stan Grant berates a senior minister for ‘talking past’ about an Afghan asylum seeker worried about his future in Australia
- Q&A host Stan Grant told Treasury Secretary Katy Gallagher on ABC panel
- He accused her of ‘talking the past’ as an Afghan asylum seeker who asked a question
- Senator Gallagher Feud With Coalition Front Bencher Jane Hume
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Q&A host Stan Grant reprimanded a female Labor Minister for “talking past” about an Afghan asylum seeker who complained of spending 10 years in Australia without getting permanent residency.
Qayyum Shah had asked the ABC panel why he believed asylum seekers were being mistreated.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Katy Gallagher, of Labour’s Left faction, was annoyed when Coalition front bencher Jane Hume pointed out that Australia had been closed for two years because of the pandemic.
“I don’t accept it was just covid related,” Senator Gallagher said.
“I accept that you were obsessed with Operation Sovereign Borders.”
Q&A presenter Stan Grant told a female Labor Minister for ‘talking past’ with an Afghan asylum seeker after complaining that she had spent ten years in Australia without getting permanent residency
Grant interrupted Senator Gallagher when she accused Senator Hume of being obsessed with former Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s 2013 election promise to “stop the boats.”
Senator Gallagher continued to intervene during the post-budget panel program.
“But I’m telling you,” the senior minister said.
Grant interrupted the female senators because they had a political row over a man who left a country where girls can no longer receive an education.
‘No, I’m sorry. My apologies. Can I stop…? Because you’re talking past the man who asked the question,’ he said.
Senator Gallagher, former chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory, protested, “Well, no, I’m not.”
Grant joined in, “And you two talk to each other.”
The minister was not amused: “Not me, Stan.”
Grant replied, “No, you are. Qayyum, you have something to say.’
Chancellor of the Exchequer Katy Gallagher (pictured), from Labour’s Left faction, was annoyed when Coalition chairwoman Jane Hume pointed out that Australia had been closed for two years because of the pandemic
Shah, who has been on a transition visa for ten years, told the panel that he came to Australia as a student after working as a financial manager in Afghanistan, which was recaptured by the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban last year.
“I didn’t even come by boat,” he said before holding up a green folder.
“And this is my document. Full of documents.
“I work with USAID, I work with the World Bank project as a financial manager in Afghanistan, which was targeted by the Taliban.”
Grant urged Senator Gallagher to take up his case, only for the Treasury Secretary to defy the case against Immigration Secretary Andrew Giles and blame the previous coalition government for the Home Office’s failure to act. had too few resources.
‘Oh, sure. And I’m sorry if you felt I was talking past you,” Senator Gallagher said.
“It wasn’t my intention to do that at all. But absolutely, I’ll take care of it.
“But more broadly, we have made some commitments to convert people who had been on temporary protection visas for a long time – ten years, certainly years – into more permanent arrangements.
“And we do.”