by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – OPPOSITION Leader Sussan Ley is pressing PM Anthony Albanese to recall Parliament before Christmas to fast-track legislation to deport Muslim extremists from Australia.
“Jewish Australians and Australians do not feel safe, and we should not rest until we have done everything in our power to keep them safe,” Ms Ley said.
- It also seeks to end Labor’s policy of self-managed returns for ISIS brides.
- Ms Ley said Australian universities would face tougher accountability.
- “Counter-terrorism action has been neglected by Labor despite multiple warnings,” Ms Ley said.
Ms Ley outlined a list of initiatives saying the Coalition would move to strip citizenship from Islamists and hate preachers and block extremists from entering Australia.
The proposal would expand the Australian Citizenship Act to allow courts to cancel the citizenship of dual nationals for a broader range of terrorism-related conduct, including overseas military-style training and hate crimes under the Criminal Code.
RADICALS
She said this would create a clear legal pathway to deport radicals and terrorist affiliates.
In the interim, Ms Ley called for an immediate ministerial direction preventing visas from being granted to anyone from terrorist-controlled enclaves unless authorities are positively satisfied of an applicant’s identity after enhanced security and character checks.
The Coalition would also end Labor’s policy of self-managed returns for ISIS brides.
It plans to introduce legislation making it an offence to provide repatriation assistance to people who travelled to declared conflict zones without ministerial approval.
Last October, two Australian women and four children left Syria’s al-Hawl camp via Lebanon and returned to Australia on commercial flights with embassy-issued passports. More than 40 Australians are believed to remain in Syrian detention camps.
In 2024, then-Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil planned to take a repatriation proposal to cabinet, but it stalled amid fears of political backlash.
The Coalition also pledged to back the Special Anti-Semitism Envoy Jillian Segal’s recommendations to combat anti-Semitism, including making the envoy a statutory office backed by legislation.
Ms Ley also called for the immigration minister to have the power to refuse visas for those engaging in anti-Semitic behaviour or hateful rhetoric, including those involved in the arts.
The Coalition would also look to introduce “no-funding triggers” to cancel or block public funding for projects or organisations linked to anti-Semitic activity.
These would apply under the Creative Australia Act 2023, the Commonwealth Grants Rules and the Australian Research Council Act 2001.
Citing complaints raised by Jewish students, Ms Ley said universities would face tougher accountability.
She also flagged amendments to the Tertiary Education Quality & Standards Agency Act 2011 to make combating anti-Semitism a condition of registration.
School curricula would also be reviewed to strengthen education on Jewish history, identity and culture, including comprehensive teaching on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, a move promised by the prime minister hours earlier.
The Coalition said it would also modernise counter-terrorism laws to give agencies stronger powers to disrupt extremists before attacks occur.
PROSECUTION
This includes a new electronic surveillance bill to enhance digital monitoring, alongside tougher prosecution of offences.
Ms Ley said the Attorney-General should immediately direct the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to take a firmer stance on such cases.
She also called on the Home Affairs Minister to instruct the Australian Federal Police to adopt a stronger policing posture against those spreading violent extremism.
“Counter-terrorism action has been neglected by Labor despite multiple warnings,” Ms Ley said.
The Coalition wants immediate funding boosts to address staffing shortages in the AFP’s Counter-Terrorism Command and the Home Affairs Counter-Terrorism Coordination Centre.
Ms Ley’s formal announcement came hours after Prime Minister Albanese unveiled tougher security and education measures in response to the Bondi terror attack.
His package includes proposed new criminal offences, expanded visa cancellation powers, increased online regulation, education reforms and the activation of national disaster recovery funding – the first time it has been used for a terrorist attack.PC
If you want to answer the question:”How did this (Bondi massacre) happen?”…just read the Koran. Islamic terrorism can’t be understood unless one familiarises oneself with the basic book of instruction that Moslems have inculcated into them from the earliest age. The persistent “them-and-us” mentality, the belligerent self-pity and the inflammatory calls to spread Islam by hook or by crook are the underpinnings of the dogmatism and violence we are currently receiving from this thinking
Islam is incompatible with Western democracies like Australia. Islam is a militant ideology which has ONE purpose: to spread islam and destroy all other forms of society. Islam is eschatological: it conditions its young men to worship death and to venerate the act of military suicide, which we just saw at Bondi.
The West is being betrayed by any leader who brings in muslims because they are bringing in a virus antithetical to our values. People like albo and tony burqa do this for political purposes and because they hate Western democracy. They are traitors.
Burke,Clare,Bowen need their votes,you have to be serious
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And what else would a party now controlled by far left factions, example the PM who is a follower of the late Russian revolutionary Marxist Leon Trotsky.
It’s about time Ley grew a set, Jacinta Price has been on the band wagon on immigration and got punished for it, the National Party been raising immigration, One Nation is pulling members to their ranks on immigration, The right wing of the Fed Libs has been raising issues on Immigration and anti-sematic behaviour and radical Muslim clerics. The attack at Bondi was coming most rational people could see it, we just did not know where or when. We were warned by ASIO, once Labor Albo, Burke and Wong pushed for the establishment of a Palestinian State the terrorists were vindicated to take action and they did. Blood on our governments hands.
Ley: a set of WHAT??!!