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Burke attacks Coalition’s ‘stupid hypocrisy’ over ISIS-linked families
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Minister of Interior, Tony BurkeThe Coalition’s push to prevent 34 Australian wives and children of ISIS fighters killed or captured in Syria from returning to Australia was “stupid hypocrisy”, he told the ABC’s 7.30 program last night.
He said if the coalition wanted the group to be permanently excluded from Australia, they “need to look at the laws they voted for and enacted while in government”.
There are a lot of stupid, deeply hypocritical claims coming from the opposition today.
Burke said there had been repatriations from Syria under the Morrison government and there had also been cases of people returning to Australia.
There were 40 people who carried out self-managed returns within the coalition; This included not only women and children, but also warriors. They included men who went there to fight. Now they were among those who returned.
It is not new for Australian passport holders to return from such situations. It happened under them.
Yesterday the government announced that one of the group would be banned from entering Australia for two years.
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New Zealand’s foreign minister, Winston Peters, said he was “appalled” by the “inexcusable” turmoil within Australian political ranks, which he attributed to “ego”.
Peters, who has served in the governments of Helen Clark, Jacinda Ardern and currently Christopher Luxon, is in his third term as New Zealand’s top diplomat.
When asked about his ties to newly elected opposition leader Angus Taylor, the 80-year-old instead criticized the recent leadership struggles in Australian politics.
“Can I say as an outsider that I’m appalled,” he told the Australian Associated Press in Wellington. he said.
The years of stability, those years of civility, first by Hawke and then by Howard, were critical to Australia’s success.
This loss has now become truly unforgivable, and the loss to both Labor and the Liberal Party has been enormous.
In the end, you have to step back and tell those parties… What happens to you when you think that the most important thing for ascension is the personal ego?
The task of ensuring strong relationships is not helped by political change, Peters said.
“It makes it difficult because you’re constantly getting new leaders,” he said, before joking that he might not need to start building new relationships with Liberal foreign affairs spokesman Ted O’Brien.
“The way the polls are going, maybe that’s not the case,” he said.
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Tony Burke defends temporary exclusion order for women
Burke explained that the decision to issue an interim restraining order against a woman, who he said had arrived in Australia on Monday, became a citizen under the Howard government and traveled to Syria under the Abbott government, was taken after reports emerged that the group was preparing to leave the camp and return to Australia.
Burke said it wouldn’t make sense for the order to be issued sooner because it was set for two years.
Burke said if the children were able to return to Australia, they would face a similar situation to those who returned under the Morrison government, but the parents “could decide never to return” because they would “face the full force of the law” for those found to have committed crimes.
Burke said he has a different perspective on the situation. Jamal Rifi – who reported allegedly aiding the group – and said the prime minister’s reaction to the issue had not changed since before the Bondi terror attack.
Burke attacks Coalition’s ‘stupid hypocrisy’ over ISIS-linked families
josh taylor
Minister of Interior, Tony BurkeThe Coalition’s push to prevent 34 Australian wives and children of ISIS fighters killed or captured in Syria from returning to Australia was “stupid hypocrisy”, he told the ABC’s 7.30 program last night.
He said if the coalition wanted the group to be permanently excluded from Australia, they “need to look at the laws they voted for and enacted while in government”.
There are a lot of stupid, deeply hypocritical claims coming from the opposition today.
Burke said there had been repatriations from Syria under the Morrison government and there had also been cases of people returning to Australia.
We had 40 people doing self-managed returns within the coalition; This included not only women and children, but also warriors. They included men who went there to fight. Now they were among those who returned.
It is not new for Australian passport holders to return from such situations. It happened under them.
Yesterday the government announced that one of the group would be banned from entering Australia for two years.
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Minister of Interior, Tony BurkeOn the ABC’s 7.30 program last night, he said the Coalition’s push to prevent all 34 Australian wives and children of ISIS fighters killed or captured in Syria from returning to Australia was “stupid hypocrisy”. More is coming.
New Zealand’s foreign minister has made some sharp comments about Australian politics, saying he was “appalled” by the rapid leadership change in the major parties and thought “ego” was behind it.
Unemployment in Australia is expected to rise again after a surprise decline. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release its first workforce figures for 2026 today, with a slight increase of 4.2% expected for January.
