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Pauline Hanson has questioned how people can tell her “good Muslims” exist and said “their religion concerns me” during a contentious television interview, which prompted the host to push back on her claims.

The One Nation Leader claimed Australia could either “reap the rewards” of a tough border stance or “suffer as other countries have, like France and Denmark, England and Canada” in the controversial interview.

“I’ve got no time for radical Islam, their religion concerns me because what it says in the Quran,” she said on Sky News on Monday night.

“They hate Westerners, and that’s what it’s all about.

“You say there’s great Muslims out there, well, I’m sorry, how can you tell me there are good Muslims?”

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The Opposition is exploring a voucher-based childcare model that would enable parents to direct subsidies toward nannies and other flexible care arrangements.

The idea was outlined by Liberal Senator Leah Blyth in an opinion piece published in the Australian Financial Review, where she argued it could broaden choices rather than tie families to a “one-size-fits-all” centre-based model.

The South Australian senator, who previously held a junior portfolio of stronger families, proposed a means-tested voucher which could be applied to approved childcare centres, family day care, in-home care or blended arrangements.

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Anthony Albanese has denied that his Government is assisting 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.”

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.