Another day, another Albanese government move so appalling that they tried to keep it a total secret – and lied about it when they got caught out.
Just a few days ago, Australians had to find out from the Indian government that Australia is in “deep negotiations” to send 100,000 Indian workers to Australia to build one million homes for Indian migrants, with funding from a Middle-Eastern government. Why on earth wouldn’t Albanese publicly announce that? (Purely coincidentally, no doubt, the Japanese government announced plans to build four ‘African hometowns’ in Japanese cities – and hurriedly reversed when the Japanese, not unnaturally, erupted in protest.)
Now, another secret the Australian government tried desperately to keep from its citizens has leaked to the public.
Australian ISIS brides stranded in northern Syria are set to be returned home before Christmas in a top-secret operation which is in the final stages of being green-lit.
The Australian can exclusively reveal more than a dozen women and children and some young men are expected to be evacuated out of camps and brought home to NSW and Victoria, in what is believed to be the third time a cohort of this kind has returned to Australia since 2019.
“What is believed to be”: in other words, they’ve been flying in the jihadis who renounced Australia without telling anyone about it.
Now that he’s caught out, what is Albanese’s first response? You guessed it: lying through his teeth.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been accused of “misleading the parliament” and “skirting questions” after he poured cold water on a report about a top-secret plan to return ISIS brides to Australia, despite senior NSW police confirming discussions were underway to receive the cohort.
The dodgy deal was exposed by the media – and greeted by furious denials from Albanese.
“Those reports are not accurate,” Mr Albanese said Question Time on Wednesday.
Except that they were.
But within hours a senior member of NSW Police confirmed discussions about the repatriation plan were underway, in footage first published by Sky News.
Australians had to rely on a minor party MP to bring the jihadi-smuggling operation to light.
“We’ve heard most recently that the ISIS brides are now being smuggled back into Australia by the federal government, does the NSW police have a role in this repatriation at all,” Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party MP Robert Borsak asked […]
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley accused Mr Albanese of failing to “answer honest questions” following the broadcast of Deputy Commissioner Hudson’s remarks.
“When these people put in their lot to go and fight with ISIS… ‘Goodbye and good riddance’.” – Andrew Hastie
This raises the bigger question: why are our politicians doing this? These are people who willingly renounced their Australian citizenship and fell over themselves to join the ISIS ‘caliphate’. These are people who saw the videos of torture, beheading and sex-slavery and couldn’t wait to join in.
Why on earth would we want them here?
More importantly, why should we have to pay millions of dollars per year, to protect ourselves from people who made it quite clear how much they hate Australia, our culture and our way of life.
Opposition home affairs spokesman Andrew Hastie said […] “When these people put in their lot to go and fight with ISIS or support ISIS at the height of the caliphate, most Australians would have thought, ‘Goodbye and good riddance’.”
An estimated 600 to 850 women have travelled to conflict zones in Iraq and Syria from western countries to join Islamic State after the Caliphate was established in 2013. After the fall of the Islamic State in 2019, about 40 so-called ‘ISIS brides’, many with children, ended up in Syrian camps.
And they can bloody well stay there.
Even better: send Albanese to join them.
