{"id":832647,"date":"2026-07-30T03:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832647\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:59:14","slug":"pauline-hanson-counter-terror-bill-tony-burke-rubbishes-one-nation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832647\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson counter-terror bill: Tony Burke rubbishes One Nation plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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July 30, 2026 \u2014 11:59am<\/p>\n

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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Pauline Hanson\u2019s push to block Australian citizens with terror links from returning to the country \u201cwould last about 30 seconds in the High Court\u201d and set a dangerous precedent that would jeopardise Australia\u2019s own deportation regime.<\/p>\n

One Nation has unveiled its first substantial legislative proposal since the populist party began to surge in the polls, drawing level with Labor<\/a> and leaving the official opposition languishing in third place. Hanson will introduce The Protecting Australians From Foreign Terrorist Fighters Bill when parliament returns in August to toughen powers to cancel or refuse passports, create a new exclusion order for fighters, and strengthen bail laws for terrorism charges.<\/p>\n

\"HomeHome Affairs Minister Tony Burke won\u2019t be able to stop suspected ISIS fighters returning to Australia if they are released from Iraqi prison.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n

Burke said the nation\u2019s terror laws were already at the limit of what was possible under the Constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn all the advice that I\u2019ve had, something like what\u2019s being proposed here would last about 30 seconds in the High Court,\u201d Burke told ABC Sydney radio on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery country in the world has to accept back its own citizens. Sometimes you can delay them for a bit, but ultimately, you have to accept your own citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burke said if One Nation\u2019s move succeeded, it would make Australia less safe because it set a precedent for other nations to block the return of their citizens. He said about 750 people a year were deported from Australia after committing serious crimes.<\/p>\n

\"OneOne Nation leader Pauline Hanson.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re child sex offenders, they\u2019re murderers, they\u2019re perpetrators of family and domestic violence. They\u2019re people who are here on a visa, who have broken the law, who should not be able to stay, and their country of origin doesn\u2019t want them either, but they have to take them back,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralia has an interest in that principle because of the people we want to kick out.\u201d<\/p>\n

One Nation\u2019s proposed legislation would allow the minister to refuse or cancel the passport of a person subject to an exclusion order \u2013 who must be deemed to \u201cpose an unacceptable risk to Australians, and could not be safely managed by a less restrictive measure\u201d \u2013 or had been charged with or convicted of a terrorism offence.<\/p>\n

While One Nation\u2019s bill will fail without Labor support, it signals the party\u2019s priorities in an area traditionally viewed as a Coalition strength.<\/p>\n

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Hanson laid down a challenge to Opposition Leader Angus Taylor last week after it was reported that an Australian ISIS recruit, the presumed-dead \u201cDr Jihad\u201d Tareq Kamleh, was alive in an Iraqi prison<\/a>. Hanson said opposition parties needed to work together to block Kamleh and other foreign fighters from returning.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s work together to draft these bills. We will back them. I do not care whose name is on the paper. I care that it passes before the gates of that Baghdad prison open,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The changes proposed in her counter-terror bill would also criminalise those who assisted people with terror links in returning to Australia.<\/p>\n

Taylor made a similar attempt when he first became opposition leader that would have penalised charities and NGOs<\/a> that facilitated the return of Islamic State-linked women and children<\/a> who had been detained in the al-Roj camp in Syria. Countries in the region still hold dozens of fighters and their families following the fall of the so-called caliphate and are trying to return them to their country of origin.<\/p>\n

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Burke on Thursday dismissed the proposal to criminalise associates as talking points meant to start a debate, and warned it would have unintended consequences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve only seen one legal attempt at this, and it also criminalised the flight crew, it criminalised members of the United States military that have been trying to get people out of those camps,\u201d Burke said.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said no one had any sympathy for those who had left to fight for terrorist organisation, but citizens had rights that Australia would uphold.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that define us as a country is we support the rule of law. Forty-five men who fought with ISIS returned before we came to government to Australia, and that\u2019s because citizenship does bring certain rights under the Constitution,\u201d he told ABC TV on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will do everything we can, of course, within the law though, and will also, of course, provide no support for any of these people to return to Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n

The government has denied giving support to the so-called ISIS bride cohort, arguing the issuing of passports was legally required.<\/p>\n

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