DAWE: Prime Minister. Women who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State have returned to Australia.
CLARKE: That’s correct. Two flights.
DAWE: Did the government bring them back?
CLARKE: We provided no assistance. I want to be very clear on that. No assistance whatsoever.
DAWE: How did they get here?
CLARKE: They made their own way.
DAWE: On commercial flights.
CLARKE: On flights, yes.
DAWE: And they landed at Melbourne Airport and Sydney Airport.
CLARKE: Airports are public facilities.
DAWE: And they were met by the AFP.
CLARKE: That’s standard procedure. That’s not assistance. That’s essentially the reverse of assistance.
DAWE: Will they be charged?
CLARKE: Anyone who has broken the law will face the full force of the law.
DAWE: Have they broken the law?
CLARKE: That’s a matter for the security agencies.
DAWE: What do the security agencies say?
CLARKE: They’re working through it.
DAWE: They’ve landed.
CLARKE: They have, yes.
DAWE: And the security agencies are still working through it.
CLARKE: The law is thorough. That’s what makes it the full force.
DAWE: They were taken out a back entrance at Sydney Airport.
CLARKE: Airports have multiple exits. That’s a safety requirement.
DAWE: Did the government arrange the back entrance?
CLARKE: We provided no assistance.
DAWE: Someone arranged it.
CLARKE: Logistics were managed appropriately.
DAWE: By whom?
CLARKE: By the relevant people.
DAWE: Prime Minister. These women went to Syria and joined a terrorist organisation.
CLARKE: They went to Syria.
DAWE: With Islamic State.
CLARKE: That’s what some reporting suggests.
DAWE: We know that.
CLARKE: We know what we know. What that means legally is what the security agencies are working through.
DAWE: So they’re home.
CLARKE: They are.
DAWE: Not charged.
CLARKE: Not at this stage.
CLARKE: With no government assistance.
DAWE: That’s been very clearly established.
CLARKE: Through a back entrance nobody organised.
DAWE: At an airport the government doesn’t own.
CLARKE: Correct.
DAWE: Thank you Prime Minister.
CLARKE: Thank you. The government takes national security with the utmost seriousness. I think today has demonstrated that comprehensively.
DAWE: It has demonstrated something.
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Australia’s security “industry”, (hah) costing near a billion, p a., should be able to “watch” some ladies and children, good wives no doubt, with innocent kiddies. Let us be humane, enlightened, but prudent…
Apparently they have busted one of the “brides”.
sacrificial lamb?
The women and their kids are Australian citizens and deserve, indeed demand, the support of the Australian government. If there has been any Australian law broke in jurisdiction, then there is an Australian legal process to be followed that assumes ”innocent until proven guilty by a Court of law”.
Meanwhile, when will the professional ”terrorists”, the CIA, MI5, MI6 and Zionist operatives, be subjected to the same scrutiny and demands as these women & kids??
Certainly there are still sufficient Australians who remember the actions of the CIA and Buck Palace staff destabilising and ultimately dismissing the democratically elected Australian Whitlam Labor government in 1975.
I await news that the many Australian Israelis who go to fight in the Israeli Defence Force each year, will also be greeted at the airport by Federal Police, and controlled and watched once they return to Australia. They also should be prosecuted for any criminal actions. There can be no doubt that some of these people engaged in illegal military activities in Gaza