ISIS brides attempt return to Australia | Sunrise

Moving on, the SMH Age are reporting that four ISIS brides and nine children have booked plane tickets back to Australia and hope to depart Damascus within days after earlier fleeing a Syrian camp. The cohort are all Australian citizens in what is their second attempt to return to Australia since February. Tanya, your government says they will be met with full force of the law if they land here.

The opposition says you should do whatever it takes to not accept them.

How is this going to play out?

Well we're not helping them return. If they do make it to Australia's borders, we'll apply Australian law. If people have broken the law overseas, they'll face the full force of Australian law. We've got our security and intelligence agencies obviously gathering information on this cohort and the broader cohort to make sure that we know as much about them as we possibly can. We've already issued one temporary exclusion order on the basis of advice from our security

agencies and we won't hesitate to use Australian law. We've got no sympathy for people who have gone to fight with ISIS or support ISIS overseas. People who took kids there, you know, it's just impossible to believe that anybody would take their children into that war zone at that terrible time. We've got no sympathy for them and they'll face Australian law and all of our information is coming from our security

and intelligence agencies. We very much respect the advice that we've been given by them. A lot of questions coming in on this. People asking if the women go to jail what happens to the children in this circumstance? Well if these women have broken the law overseas then they will face jail and that is a decision they've made as adults and of course it's sad for children to be separated from mothers who are in jail, but that's happening

right now in Australia. If people break the law, then they have to face the consequences of breaking the law. If they made a decision to go there and fight with an organisation that was murdering, raping, enslaving people, then we've got zero tolerance for that. Barnaby, let's go to you. The Government says they're doing everything they can within the scope of the law. The Opposition says by distributing passports and doing the DNA tests, that is

actually helping. Where do you stand? Where does One Nation stand?

Well, quite obviously obviously last part of what Tanya said they were raping, they were murdering, this is what their hubbies were up to. They were over comforting their hubbies who were going out and raping people, selling them into sexual slavery, shooting women in the stomach when they were pregnant, beheading people, taking them around with their kids, showing them what it's like.

As I said, I help the Azzedi people come into the New England. And if you wanna know what they're like, go talk to them. These are brutish people, and these are women, as they call themselves, wives, who were a party to some of the most horrendous crimes

in the history of the world. And if we got a temporary exclusion on one, we should be doing everything to get a temporary exclusion on the lot. They chose to go there. They were not taken there in handcuffs. And if the legislation is not strong enough to keep them there,

then that is a job the first day back in Parliament. Make the legislation strong enough so they stay there. Australia does not welcome them home.

Yeah, Tanya, a lot of people say, why can't we keep them out? I don't understand because of what Barnaby says. Could you explain that? Yeah well we're following the law. Is this international law? Australian citizens have, no no, Australian citizens, if they, Australian law says if an Australian citizen asks for an Australian passport then they get an Australian passport but there's nothing to stop us if these people manage to make it back.

If these people manage to make it back, they can be picked up at the airport and face the full force of the Australian law. Barnaby says now change the law, change the law from Barnaby. 40 people came back when Barnaby was in government. When Barnaby was the Deputy Prime Minister. Well this is the difference between what you say and what you do Barnaby. It's the difference between what you say and what you do. When you were the Deputy Prime Minister, 40 people, including fighters, came home.

We know that's history. We know people came with Barnaby. History is relevant actually. Because it's the difference between what he says and what he does. He says one thing when he was the We know people came with Barnaby was in that government. It's the difference between what he says and what he does. He says one thing when he was the second most powerful person in the country. Barnaby, under the Morrison government, just hang on a second, under the Morrison government, eight orphans and one newborn came back in 2019.

So that did happen under the Morrison government. But now, you know, there were 40 people, Matt. There were 40. 40 people.

You're saying that doesn't stop them from coming back.

OK, but just a second. Now we are in 2026. You know, you could argue it's a different climate. People are now asking the question, is there any way we could change the Australian law to not accept them back? Tanya, is that a possibility? Well, that's not a question for me, Nan. What we can do is pick them up at the airport if they've broken the law. We've already issued a temporary exclusion order for one of them on the basis of our security agency's advice.

We follow Australian law as a government. We follow the law and we follow the advice of our security agencies. Does Barnaby suggest that we shouldn't be going on the basis of the advice of our security agencies? Is that what he's saying now? Okay, Barnaby, can you answer that? The security is saying that's what we do. Do you want to go against that?

I can answer that. Just like we have a law that apparently Tanya says has to let them back. We, actually our jobs, we make laws, right? That's what we do. We go down there and we go into this room and we vote and it changes laws. So we should vote to change these laws. If there is a problem that says that they're going to come back. Now we have issued a temporary exclusion order for one.

They were all over there helping their hubbies murder and rape people.

So let's get them all out. And as Tanya said, look, this is not the catch.

And our security agencies are very aware of it. Yeah. These security agencies are watching this group very closely on the basis of that advice we've issued.

You're going to let them back?

A temporary exclusion order already.

You're going to let them back?

There may be further actions taken if they make it back here. The last lot didn't make it back here. But I mean really, like 40 people came back, including fighters, and you are the Deputy Prime Minister, what did you do?

We're going to leave it there.

Because we judge people on the basis of what they do and what they say. I think we've heard both sides. As Tanya said, it's actually not her jurisdiction. We have asked the Home Affairs Minister to come on and they've declined.

We might get the Attorney-General to come on and see if it is possible to change the We might get the Attorney-General to come on and see if it is possible to change the

law.