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The world knows the certainty of death and taxes, but Australians know a few things that are even more certain. Firstly, when the riot squad has to be turned out to ‘welcome’ a group arriving in the country that shouldn’t be arriving at all. Secondly, that whenever PM Anthony Albanese’s lips are moving, he’s lying.
Another cohort of ISIS brides and their children has touched down in Sydney and Melbourne. Riot squad cars were stationed at the airports. Federal and state police patrolled the terminals. The ‘security escort’ assembled outside Melbourne airport looked less like official protection and more like a collection of Muslim vigilantes waiting for orders. This is not how a government brings back people it claims to despise.
Anthony Albanese says he has “nothing but contempt” for people who sympathise with ISIS brides as a second cohort of women and children prepares to touch down in Australia.
The prime minister outlined his “three points” of defence against questions about the return of the ISIS brides.
The coalition asked the prime minister during question time whether he would “admit” the repatriation of the women was “all part of the Labor government’s plan”.
Albanese did not directly refute the assertion – big surprise. Instead, he resorted to evasion and focus-group-cooked-up waffle.
“I make three points,” Mr Albanese said.
“I have nothing but contempt for anyone who has any sympathy with ISIS as I hope everyone in this chamber would agree. This should not be partisanship.
“Point two, the government has provided no assistance for these people.
“Point three, any breaches of the law will mean that these people will face the full force of the law, the extent available, upon the advice of the security agencies.”
Except that we know for a fact that “Point two” is yet another barefaced lie from a contemptible liar by even the low standards of politicians.
How, after all, did these women obtain new Australian passports if the government was offering no assistance? The question answers itself. The Department of Communities and Justice confirmed on the day of arrival that the women and children would be offered health assistance and could be taken from the airport by DCJ staff if requested. That is government assistance by any honest definition. It directly contradicts Albanese’s claim that none had been provided.
The same prime minister who claims to hold these women in contempt appears to have moved heaven and earth to bring them home. Four women and six children landed in Sydney on Qatar Airways flight QR908. Two more women and seven children arrived in Melbourne. They include Nesrine, who married an Australian-born jihadist after being taken into ISIS territory, Sumaya Zahab, sister of a jihadist killed in an airstrike, and others with multiple children each.
Children, it should be noted, born overseas to parents who had renounced their Australian citizenship. So, by what sane measure do they have any claim on Australia?
As for their contemptible – at least Albanese chose the right word, there – mothers, these are not naive teenagers. They are adults who chose the caliphate, cheered its atrocities and now expect Australian taxpayers to foot the bill for their return, housing and monitoring.
If Albanese truly holds them in contempt, why the urgency to repatriate them at all? Why the new passports? Why the offer of state assistance the moment they land? Why the heavy police presence that looks more like protection for the arrivals than for the public? The contrast between the words and the actions is glaring. Contempt in the chamber, but a red carpet, or at least a government-funded one, at the airport.
This is the same Albanese who once swore black and blue he would not bring ISIS brides back. It is the same Albanese who lectures Australians about compassion while importing people who openly sided with a death cult that practised slavery, beheadings and the systematic rape of Yazidi women. The security detail at the airport tells its own story. These are not random bystanders. They are part of the imported community whose attitudes the government has spent years refusing to confront.
Turning out the riot squad to greet them only underscores what a threat they are to the much babbled-about ‘social cohesion’ of Australia.
Australians are not stupid. They can see the gap between the tough talk and the actual policy. They can see the riot squad being deployed not against a threat, but to manage the arrival of people the prime minister claims to despise. They can see government departments stepping in to help the very women Albanese says deserve nothing but contempt.
The pattern is now familiar. Big promises before an election. Quiet reversals afterwards. Tough language in parliament. Facilitation on the ground. The only thing missing is an honest admission that the policy has changed because the politics demanded it. Instead we get another round of spin about contempt and the full force of the law, while the women and their children are processed, housed and supported at public expense.
Australians know when they are being lied to. They have seen it too often. This latest exercise in repatriating ISIS sympathisers is simply the newest chapter.
