Another sitting week is upon us, and Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has stood up at a doorstop interview in Parliament House.
He was spruiking his party’s attempt to criminalise NGOs and individuals helping repatriate Australian citizens with terror links, and clashed with a reporter over the details of his plan.
“We must shut the door to ISIS sympathisers,” Taylor said before snapping at a journalist who asked why other countries should be responsible for the Australian citizens if their own government refused to take responsibility for them.
“[Are you] an activist or a journalist, you need to make up your mind,” Taylor said.
Taylor also refused to distinguish between the Australian women who left for Syria to support the so-called caliphate, and the 23 children in the cohort seeking repatriation, despite repeated questions from reporters.
“This is a group who have gone to the Middle East to support ISIS. There is no ambiguity,” he said.
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