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The NSW and Albanese governments have been urged to come clean over who paid for a pizza dinner for the ISIS brides and their children after they returned to Sydney, as outrage grows over their 'VIP treatment'.  The cohort of four women and six children arrived at Sydney Airport on May 26 and were greeted by officials from the NSW Department of Communities and Justice. Officials are believed to have conducted an almost three-hour health assessment on the group before police assisted them to a line of waiting cars. AFP officers were then seen shielding the women and children from cameras by forming a line in front of the vehicles. Media later spotted the women at a nearby hotel, where pizza boxes were delivered to reception as riot police stood guard outside.  A federal government source told the Daily Telegraph it was 'ridiculous' the group had received 'VIP treatment' on their arrival. 'It sets a precedent that you can willingly travel to and come back with a red carpet rolled out for you from a side exit,' they said. Speaking on claims the ISIS-linked cohort were fed pizza, a police source said they 'got fed and we didn't'. Pressure is mounting for the NSW and federal governments to disclose who paid for the pizza dinner. Federal Opposition home affairs spokesman Jonno Duniam demanded answers from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government.  'The federal government still tries to argue that it has done nothing to help these women and children,' he said. 'As if passports, consular assistance, identity checks, transport, police arrangements, health checks, accommodation and other special privileges – including upon their arrival in Australia – have somehow all materialised by magic.