Kristina Keneally has accused Peter Dutton of "cancelling her trip" to Christmas Island last minute in a series of angry tweets, labelling the move "pathetic".
Labor senator Ms Keneally said Mr Dutton had cancelled her trip to visit a Tamil family who were taken into detention in 2018. She says just over 20 minutes after she was granted permission by Australia's Border Force, Mr Dutton quashed her access.
It comes on a bad day for Mr Dutton, who was trending Wednesday night after questions swirled over why scantily-clad twerkers were deployed to the commissioning of a war ship.
The new Defence Minister was, according to the