Wednesday 2 November 2022 12:40 AM Sky News host Peta Credlin unleashes after ISIS brides and families visit ... trends now
Sky News commentator Peta Credlin has unleashed at the Albanese government after footage emerged of ISIS brides and their children visiting Kmart and McDonald's within 48 hours of returning to Australia.
Four women, all of whom married terrorists, and their 13 children touched down in Sydney on Saturday after being removed from the al-Roj camp in Syria near the Iraqi border.
It has since been revealed the women are unlikely to face police action, aren't required to wear ankle monitoring bracelets and won't be subject to 24 hour police supervision.
Some of the women were spotted together at a McDonald's in south-west Sydney on Tuesday. One of the ISIS brides, Mariam Dabboussy, was also spotted at a Kmart and playground in western Sydney with her family, sparking anger from politicians blindsided by the federal government's decision to bring them home.
A fired up Credlin weighed into the saga on Tuesday night as she slammed the Prime Minister over his decision to allow the ISIS brides to return - something she says has not been properly explained to the public.
Footage has emerged of some of the ISIS brides and their families at a McDonald's in Punchbowl in south-west Sydney on Tuesday, which has sparked widespread anger
'Whether you agree with the decision or you don't, nonetheless it's dead wrong for the prime minister to hide from something as big as this,' Credlin fumed.
'If you want to make a decision like this, then have the guts to front the camera and defend it.
'No one wants to see children suffer for the crimes of their parents, but that can't excuse the Albanese government's total failure even to explain, let alone to justify, letting jihadi families returning to Australia.'
'Not one minister has so far fronted the camera to justify the decision to bring these jihadis back and no questions have been asked to the prime minister by the media.'
A former advisor and chief of staff to former Coalition prime minister Tony Abbott, Credlin said while the government has a duty to all Australians, including the ISIS brides and their families, it also has a responsibility to the community as a whole.
'It's completely shirked its duty to explain how the safety of a few women who rejected Australia to join terrorist groups abroad trumps the safety of the wider population,' her rant continued.
'They shouldn't have terrorists or terrorist sympathisers living in a street next to them.'
She acknowledged there's a possibility the women have seen the error of their ways and now reject the same ideologies they abandoned Australia for.
Peta Credlin (pictured) called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to 'show some guts' and explain the decision to allow ISIS brides and their families to return
Dai Le, the Federal independent MP for the south-west Sydney seat of Fowler, described the situation as concerning.
Ms Le recently wrote to the Home Affairs minister Clare O'Neil requesting for a briefing but is yet to receive any information.
'There has been a cloak of secrecy over this whole repatriation issue,' Ms Le told the Today show on Wednesday.
There has been no transparency over this repatriation from the government and here to the families in Fowler in south-west Sydney, where the majority of those families have escaped the ISIS state and ISIS families.
Ms Le vowed to demand answers when parliament resumes next week.
'We're supposed to be a new government, supposed to build that trust for the community,' she argued.
This is the thing that you do. How are you going to build trust to change the political system if you're not going to deal with an issue like this up front?'
Mariam Dabboussy (pictured with two of her children and father in Syria) was spotted enjoying a visit to a park with her three children in Sydney's west this week
Ms Dabboussy is now back at her family home
