From ISIS Brides to Basic Biology, Labor Has Lost its Way

You never quite know what you’ll uncover in Senate Estimates, but last week revealed two moments that should deeply concern every Australian.

One showed how far our institutions have drifted from common sense. The other exposed how far this government will go to hide the truth.

1. The Sex Discrimination Commissioner Who Doesn’t Understand Biology

The first revelation came from Dr Anna Cody, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, who calmly told the Senate she “doesn’t understand the term biological man.”

Yes, you read that correctly. The nation’s top official on sex discrimination – paid over $400,000 a year – says she doesn’t understand what “biological man” means.

You couldn’t make it up if you tried.

This is the same Commissioner who advises governments, schools and courts on what constitutes discrimination between men and women and yet she can’t define either.

Australians aren’t stupid. They know exactly what a man is and what a woman is. They understand biology, even if the Commissioner doesn’t. And they can see how far our institutions have drifted from the most basic truths of human reality.

As The Australian put it, “if the Commissioner can’t define a woman, she can’t defend one.” Women’s groups have gone further - they’ve said she should resign. And they’re right.

The bare minimum requirement for this role is understanding the difference between a man and a woman.

You don’t need a PhD in gender studies just honesty and backbone.

It would almost be comical if it weren’t so serious. This is the person advising the federal government on how to interpret the law when it comes to the rights of men and women. And yet she claims she can’t understand what “biological man” means.

Australians deserve leaders who speak clearly, stand for truth, and defend women’s rights without flinching.

Because here’s the bottom line: If the Sex Discrimination Commissioner can’t define sex, she can’t protect it.

It’s time to restore common sense and remind Canberra that biology isn’t bigotry, it’s reality.

2. The Albanese Government’s ISIS Brides Cover-Up

The second revelation should infuriate Australians.

For weeks, the Prime Minister insisted that reports of ISIS brides returning to Australia were “not accurate.”

Now we know the truth: two ISIS brides and four children are back in Australia.

This wasn’t a misunderstanding. It was a cover-up - plain and simple.

Officials confirmed the Government was briefed as early as June about the plan to return these ISIS-linked individuals. Yet the Prime Minister and his Ministers repeatedly told Australians they didn’t know anything about it. That was false and they knew it.

Labor refuses to tell the public who these women are, how they got here, or what safeguards are in place to protect our communities. That’s unacceptable.

These women are not victims. They willingly joined a barbaric death cult that raped, beheaded and enslaved innocent men, women and children. Now, under Labor, they’re being quietly resettled in Australian suburbs.

Mr Albanese said no one was coming. Now they’re here. Either he misled Australians, or he’s lost control of his own departments.

You don’t smuggle yourself out of Syria, through Lebanon, and land in Victoria with a new Australian passport by accident.

If there’s nothing to hide, why won’t the Prime Minister tell Australians the truth?

Australians Deserve Straight Answers

Officials told Senate Estimates that these women were DNA-tested, identity-verified, issued Australian passports and flown home all with government knowledge. Yet Labor insists it “played no role”. Passports don’t issue themselves.

Just weeks ago, Mr Albanese dismissed the reports as “not accurate". Within days, NSW Deputy Police Commissioner David Hudson confirmed police had been briefed and expected to assist with reintegration.

The truth is obvious: Labor knew, stayed silent, and misled the public. That’s not leadership, it’s deceit.

And when questioned in Estimates, Foreign Minister Penny Wong spent hours dodging questions and taking everything on notice. That’s not accountability that’s evasion.

Australians are tired of being treated like fools. A government that hides, deflects and denies at every turn is not a government that can be trusted on national security.

When governments lose honesty, they lose legitimacy, and when they lose legitimacy, they lose the trust that keeps a country safe.

This wasn’t a bureaucratic error, it was a deliberate political choice that puts Australians at risk.

These women weren’t naïve travellers. They were adults who chose to live under one of the most violent and extremist regimes in modern history.

Now, under Labor, they’ve been resettled in our communities.

The Government calls the risks “manageable.”That word should chill every Australian.

“Manageable” means ASIO, the AFP and state police are now forced to monitor them around the clock diverting critical resources from other pressing national-security threats.

Every officer tracking an ISIS returnee is one less officer tracking cyberattacks, foreign interference or organised crime.

And let’s be clear, the ideology of ISIS doesn’t vanish with the fall of the caliphate. It festers. It spreads. And it poisons the next generation. These women are raising children who were born or radicalised under that ideology.

We should be protecting Australian families from that risk, not importing it. And Australians are right to feel frustrated, betrayed and angry that this has happened behind closed doors, without consultation, transparency or explanation.

Parents deserve to know their communities are safe. Australians shouldn’t have to wonder if someone in their street once pledged allegiance to ISIS. That’s not paranoia, that’s common sense.

Australians deserve straight answers:

• Where are these ISIS members now?

• What security checks were done?

• Were communities warned?

• What protections are in place?

• What is the cost to taxpayers?

• Why the secrecy?

  
  

This Government has mastered the art of hiding - hiding the truth, hiding the facts and hiding from responsibility.

When it comes to national security, secrecy is not strength - it’s weakness. A government that won’t level with its citizens can’t claim to be protecting them.

There’s another group Labor ignores: Australia’s Assyrian Christian community - survivors of ISIS’s brutality.

They fled ISIS terror. Now they may be forced to live alongside women who supported the very terrorists who murdered their families.

It defies belief that a government could show such disregard for victims while bending over backwards for those who stood with their persecutors.

Australia should stand with the victims of terrorism, not with those who enabled it. That principle used to unite us. It still should.

The return of two ISIS brides and four children isn’t an immigration issue - it’s a national-security scandal and a failure of honesty, judgment and leadership.

Because the real test of any government is simple: Are Australians safer and stronger today than they were yesterday?

On both counts, Anthony Albanese and his Labor Government have failed.

Australians deserve a government that puts their safety first, tells them the truth, and restores some basic common sense to public life.

That’s what the Liberal Party will always fight for - a country where truth still matters, leadership still means something, and common sense still counts.

And then to cap the week off Labor’s shameless attempt to claim Trump’s Peace deal

Only Labor could look at one of the most significant diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East in decades - a Trump-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas - and think, “How can we take credit for that?”

The Albanese Government’s response to the Gaza peace deal has been nothing short of embarrassing. 

Within hours of Israel’s announcement, Labor ministers were tripping over themselves to issue statements pretending Australia had somehow played a role in securing the agreement. 

Let’s be clear: they didn’t.

This historic deal - delivering a ceasefire, Israeli troop withdrawal, and the return of all hostages - was achieved through US leadership, Israeli determination, and strong regional diplomacy. 

President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu, and allies like Egypt and Qatar did the heavy lifting. Australia was a spectator, not a participant.

But that hasn’t stopped Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese from trying to elbow their way into the spotlight. 

It’s classic Labor spin: no substance, just self-promotion. 

The truth is, this government has spent two years alienating Israel, equivocating on terrorism, and flirting with symbolic recognition of Palestine while Israeli civilians were still being held underground by Hamas.

Now, after all that moral posturing and muddled messaging, Labor wants to wrap itself in the flag of “peace.” Spare us. You can’t undermine Israel one month and claim diplomatic credit the next.

This deal was forged through strength, not appeasement. Through American resolve, not Australian rhetoric. It shows what happens when leadership is clear, courageous and unapologetically pro-Israel the exact opposite of Labor’s confused foreign policy.

Instead of trying to steal Trump’s thunder, Labor should learn from it: peace doesn’t come from weakness, lectures or photo ops. It comes from standing with your allies, calling evil by its name, and backing strength over symbolism.

The Albanese Government has made fools of themselves on the world stage and Australians can see it.