Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

I've often said that this terrible Albanese government is the most secretive in Australian history. No issue demonstrates this more than the Prime Minister's lies about his secret plan to bring the ISIS brides—and never forget that they are terrorists or sympathisers—back to Australia. Do any have dual citizenship? If they do, then strip them of their Australian citizenship, denying their right and their children's right to come back to Australia.

The Australian people have been deliberately kept in the dark. Only last week, the Prime Minister told the media in Werribee:

… what we aren't doing is providing repatriation of these people.

This week, revelations made to my office by New South Wales corrections officers have blown his lies out of the water. It turns out the Prime Minister and the Premier of New South Wales, Chris Minns, have been preparing to accept these women for quite some time. Renovations are underway at the Windsor women's correctional facility to create a new wing designed to house female terrorists. Corrections officers in New South Wales are currently undergoing a new training module called 'Women in Violent Extremism'. This module is designed to train officers to deal with category 5 female inmates. At the moment, New South Wales has no category 5 inmates.

I'm told that any ISIS brides—terrorists—who arrive before the new facility at Windsor is completed will be temporarily housed at Silverwater Women's Correctional Centre. I'm also told that perhaps not all of these women will be headed for New South Wales. That raises yet more questions to which we know the Prime Minister will never give a straight answer. Where else will these women be held? Victoria? South Australia? Who knows? Have Jacinta Allan and Peter Malinauskas also been covertly working with the Albanese government to prepare the welcome mat for these ISIS terrorists? At what cost to the taxpayer? My rough figures would put the cost at $1,800 per day, per prisoner in New South Wales. That's more than $650,000 per year, per prisoner. If these women face life sentences, taxpayers will pay tens of millions of dollars for the Prime Minister's secretive plans to bring back these ISIS terrorists.

Let us never forget what these women did. People around the world reacted with shock and revulsion at the depravity of the so-called Islamic State caliphate. These maniacs burned people alive. They enslaved and raped thousands of women. They murdered thousands more, along with their children. They inspired acts of terrorism around the world, which killed many more people, including here in Australia. They continue to inspire acts of terror, including the massacre of Jewish Australians at Bondi. These women volunteered to join this depraved cult. They were enthusiastic. They were happy to be part of it. When it all fell apart, when the Islamic State was destroyed, they had to experience something they never thought would happen—consequences. They were thrown in a refugee camp in Syria with all the suffering that goes with it. That's where they should stay.

I'm confident I speak for many Australians in saying they should be left there to rot, but that's not how Labor and the Greens think. Labor and the Greens snub their noses at the Australian people and pull out all the stops to accommodate these traitors. Labor are embarrassed enough to hide it under a veil of secrecy. They've thrown a burqa over their plans, hiding these women and the assistance they're giving them. Labor is despicable. They cannot be trusted with the safety of the Australian community. They cannot be trusted with national security. They cannot be trusted to stop radical Islam. They cannot be trusted to stop antisemitism. These failures, culminating in the Bondi terrorist attack, will define the Prime Minister's time in office forever. It's time for Australians to stand up to the worst prime minister and the worst government we've ever had. Australians want their country back, minus the terrorist brides and radical Islam.