Nick McKenzie may have really dropped the ball.
The whole case against Ben Roberts-Smith was built on one man's report.
Paul Brereton. Author of the 2020 Afghanistan Inquiry.
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๐ LABOR FAILURE FILES #50 - LABOR LET THEM IN, GAVE THEM THE UPPER HAND, AND NOW THEY'RE USING IT ๐
Today the brother of returned ISIS bride Nesrine Zahab stood on Australian soil and told critics of his sister's return that if they don't like the law they should leave. Not her. You.
His exact words, recorded in a video published by The Australian: "These guys are Australian citizens, their kids are Australian citizens, you want to hide on it. You don't like the law. If you're saying, for them, for life, if you don't like the law in Australia, then you must leave. Because we're accepting the law. If she's not accepting the law in Australia, thank you very much. Please leave."
The family of a woman who spent a decade inside the ISIS caliphate married to a documented ISIS fighter is now telling Australians who object to her return to get out of their own country. And here's the thing. Under the law as Labor built and left it, he's not wrong.
She's back. She's at an undisclosed location. She's reportedly expressed a desire to study nursing and nothing in current Australian law prevents her from doing so. Her surveillance costs the taxpayer around $2,000,000 a year based on comparable NSW ESO cases and not one dollar of it appears on any public ledger.
Labor had four years and a parliamentary majority to strengthen the exclusion order framework, raise the evidentiary bar, and create a rebuttable presumption of knowledge for anyone who voluntarily flew to ISIS controlled territory to marry a documented terrorist. They introduced nothing. The Coalition introduced legislation in March 2026 to begin closing the gaps. Labor didn't support it.
The confidence you're watching today is not accidental. It's what happens when a government spends four years signalling there'll be no real consequences and no meaningful obstacles. When you hand people that kind of runway, don't be surprised when they use it.
Make it make sense.
Between 2017-2019, China sent 2 million Muslims (including half a million children) to internment camps, where they were forced to drink alcohol and eat pork to โdeprogramโ from Islam.
China officially considers Islam a mental illness.
Why does no one call China Islamophobic?