Jason Wood (La Trobe, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for International Development and Pacific Island Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

All Australians need to be made aware of the facts behind how the home affairs minister and the Prime Minister somehow allowed 11 women and 23 children linked to ISIS to be issued with passports. My previous role, as the assistant minister for customs, meant I also looked after the Australian Border Force. Can I make it very clear to every Australian that the Australian government very much overlooks who actually gets Australian passports, especially when they're overseas and passports are being lost.

The minister must come clean on why they have these Australian passports. Let's make no mistake at all. These ISIS brides left Australia to support ISIS terrorists who were killing Australian allies and also Australian soldiers. You saw the most barbaric scenes of these men holding up human heads. There's no way these women should be allowed in Australia. There's no way the government can give a guarantee that these women will come to Australia and not in any way try to seduce others to follow their cause, because when it comes to deradicalisation—again, my background in counterterrorism—it is so difficult to achieve. We are taking a huge risk in Australia under this Labor Albanese government, and it shouldn't be taken. We need to make sure Australians are protected.

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