Australian news and politics live: Albanese responds to ISIS bride fiasco as 30 reportedly turned away
LIVE UPDATES: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has responded to the latest move from a group of ISIS brides and their families, as fears grow they are coming to Australia.
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Max Corstorphan is reporting live.
Albanese's warning over ISIS bride move
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese denied that his Government were assisted getting a group of ISIS brides and children back to Australia, after photos of the families emerged online.
“We won’t repatriate them,” Mr Albanese told ABC News Breakfast on Tuesday.
“My mother would have said, ‘If you make your bed, you lie in it’.
“These are people who went overseas supporting Islamic State and went there to provide support for people who basically want a caliphate.
“We have a very firm view that we won’t be providing assistance or repatriation. Australian law applies.
“There are obligations that Australian officials have, but we want to make it clear, as we have to the people involved, that if there are any breaches of the law, they will face the full force of the Australian law.”
ISIS bridges returned to camp, for now
A group of Australians, understood to be made up of 34 women and children, who were believed to have been released from a camp holding families of spectacled ISIS militants and headed to Australia, have reportedly been turned back.
On Monday, photos emerged of the ISIS brides and their families preparing to leave a detention camp in northeast Syria. It is now understood that Syrian authorities stopped the families from leaving.
A technical issue reportedly stopped the ISIS brides and children from leaving, something that local media suggest will be resolved before they resume their journey.
