Andrew Hastie (Canning, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We will always protect the Australian way of life. Protecting our freedom, security and prosperity requires leadership and vigilance, especially after the Bondi Beach terror attack. We can't allow militant political Islam to grow in our communities. That's why we oppose the return of ISIS sympathisers to Australia. This is our home, and we don't want traitors living amongst us. ISIS was responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed this century: rape, enslavement, torture and murder right across the Middle East and Africa. Religious and ethnic minorities suffered under the yoke of ISIS. Who can forget the 21 brave Egyptian Christians who were beheaded on a Libyan beach in 2015 in the name of militant political Islam?

Let us not forget that it was ISIS who inspired the Bondi Beach massacre. So why would the Albanese government allow the return of ISIS sympathisers to our shores? If the average Australian can see the threat that ISIS poses, why can't this Labor government see the same thing? The Albanese government denies any role in the return of ISIS sympathisers despite mounting evidence of its assistance. But the truth is that the Albanese government is either incompetent or lying. Either way, on this side of the House, we say to ISIS sympathisers there is no room for you in Australia. We do not want traitors living amongst us, and we will do everything in our power to close the door on you, because the Australian people and their way of life always come first.