Letter to the Editor: Time to bring them home

DEAR News Of The Area,

WATCHING the Prime Minister mouthing Hansonisms like a puppet controlled from behind last week was simply embarrassing, so I Googled a couple of matters, i.e. how long have the so-called “Isis Brides” been detained in a camp in Syria and what is their average age.

These women, who Mr Albanese holds in  contempt, are in their early twenties and early thirties, and Google also tells me that they have been held in the most squalid conditions for seven years.

By my calculations this means that some were teenagers or even children when they went to join their husbands and one must question the degree of control the girls had over their lives at the time quite apart from their life experience.

Both the Prime Minister and the Minister for Home Affairs freely acknowledge that the women and their children cannot be denied entry indefinitely and that our laws are sufficiently robust to deal with anyone who may wish the country harm, so talking tough is not fooling anyone.

We expect better from our leaders.

Do they realise how much fuel they are laying down for the far right to stoke its fires?

They have already made the women – and their children – a target.

For shame.

Time to bring them home.

Regards,
Margaret ENGLAND,
Mid North Coast.