‘Won’t be allowed’: Pauline fires back after last ‘ISIS bride’ allowed to return

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has declared that “ISIS brides will not be allowed in the monoculture” in response to news this morning an Australian woman with links to the Islamic State has been granted a permit to return home.

The woman, and her child, are the last of the Australians who had been stranded in the Al Roj camp detention camp in Syria.

The mother was blocked from boarding a flight back to Australia in May, along with a group of so-called ISIS brides, after a temporary exclusion order was placed on her by the federal government.

However, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke told ABC’s AM that the woman was issued a permit to return last night after all legal avenues were exhausted.

“We received the final advice yesterday that we can no longer have an exclusion condition for her,” Burke said.

In a post on Facebook, Hanson wrote: “They said they banned this one, now they’re issuing a return permit.”

Burke said the woman’s permit comes with extremely strict monitoring measures.

“She will have to report where she lives, where she works, where she studies, if she books a ticket to anywhere, for telecommunications she cannot use any telecommunications device without giving 24 hours notice,” he said.

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Two rounds of so-called ISIS brides returned to Australia in May. Some of the women have been charged with crimes-against-humanity offences.

ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess told the ABC his agency was prepared for the woman’s return.

“ASIO is not all-seeing and all-knowing, and we don’t want to be, but I can assure your listeners that actually the full use of my organisation’s capability and powers will be used when this individual returns to this country,” Burgess told ABC radio.

“We know the level of the risk, and anyone who’s considered a high or medium risk gets my agency’s full attention.”