Monday 3 October 2022 11:24 PM Karl Stefanovic says ISIS brides and their children should not be allowed back ... trends now
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Karl Stefanovic has clashed with Bill Shorten after declaring Islamic State brides and their children stranded in Syria should not be brought back to Australia.
Cabinet's national security committee will meet on Tuesday to formally approve a rescue plan to repatriate more than a dozen families who recently underwent 'risk assessments' following a secret ASIO mission to the war-torn nation.
Sixteen Australian women and 42 children have been held in al-Roj refugee camp in northeast Syria near the Iraqi border for three-and-a-half years following the fall of Islamic State in March 2019.
The Today Show host on Tuesday morning said there was 'no way in the world' those families should be allowed to return to Australia after leaving to join their husbands fighting for the terror group.
Karl Stefanovic has clashed with Bill Shorten after declaring Islamic State brides and their children stranded in Syria should not be brought back to Australia
The former Labor leader was tight-lipped about his feelings on the matter, and said Australians would want to know that 'natural security is intact'.
'I mean a lot of these kids are under six of course and they didn't have any say in what happened to them, but it is a national security matter and there is probably not much more I can add,' Mr Shorten said on the breakfast show.
Stefanovic then said Mr Shorten's comments made it sound like he wasn't in support of the move.
'No not at all,' Mr Shorten argued.
'I don't have sympathy for some of those blokes who went over there,
