{"id":484735,"date":"2026-02-17T01:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484735\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:31:11","slug":"islamic-state-brides-turned-around-in-syria-coalition-immigration-policy-leaked-ritchies-iga-urges-government-to-cut-tobacco-excise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484735\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State brides turned around in Syria; Coalition immigration policy leaked; Ritchies IGA urges government to cut tobacco excise"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has appeared to equivocate over comments from his party leader Pauline Hanson, in which she said \u201chow can you tell me there are good Muslims?\u201d<\/p>\n

Joyce, who appeared on Today this morning, was played a clip of Hanson on Sky News last night.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the IS brides returned to their Syrian camp yesterday<\/a>, she said of radical Islamists: \u201cThey hate Westerners, and that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. You know, you say, oh, well, there\u2019s good Muslims out there. Well, I\u2019m sorry, how can you, you know, tell me there are good Muslims?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"OneOne Nation MP Barnaby Joyce and party leader Pauline Hanson. Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Joyce\u2019s response:<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, that\u2019s \u2013 I believe that there are people who are of the Islamic faith who, obviously I know, so I\u2019m not going to say that I don\u2019t have people who are friends of Islamic faith. I do, but I\u2019m not going to say because of that, I\u2019m going to put so many people at risk,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He went on to say he agreed \u201c100 per cent with Pauline\u201d that people were coming to Australia with values \u201cgenerationally at odds with what Australia is\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hanson\u2019s comments echoed her 2016 first speech to parliament when she said lives would be destroyed while trying to distinguish between \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cbad\u201d Muslims.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur leaders continue to tell us to be tolerant and embrace the good Muslims. But how should we tell the difference? There is no sign saying \u2018good Muslim\u2019 or \u2018bad Muslim\u2019,\u201d she said then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has appeared to equivocate over comments from his party leader Pauline Hanson, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-484735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}