{"id":486511,"date":"2026-02-17T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486511\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:11:08","slug":"australian-news-and-politics-live-clare-oneil-admits-government-must-grant-passports-to-isis-brides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486511\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian news and politics live: Clare O\u2019Neil admits Government must grant passports to ISIS brides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Housing Minister Clare O\u2019Neil has admitted the Albanese Government is \u201crequired\u201d to issue Australian passports to citizens, like ISIS brides in terror hotspots, attempting to maintain Labor has not assisted the women and children with their return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is required to issue passports to Australian citizens,\u201d Ms O\u2019Neil told Sunrise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThat is a matter of Australian law,\u201d she added when asked how ISIS brides could be returning to the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Ms O\u2019Neil said the Albanese Government had to follow the same laws as previous Liberal governments, attempting to shift focus to when former prime minister Scott Morrison brought children who were Australian citizens back from Syria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe have a situation here that is long-running for the country. There are Australian citizens overseas who, in some instances, have done things that are, you know, they deserve to face consequences for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cEvery Australian government has to manage groups of people like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Housing Minister Clare O\u2019Neil has admitted the Albanese Government is \u201crequired\u201d to issue Australian passports to citizens, like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,84],"class_list":["post-486511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486511","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=486511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}