Let’s face it, the ISIS wives would not be returning to Australia if the Islamist extremist head-lopping Caliphate was still at large in Syria and Iraq.

Someone in charge of Australia needs to state, once and for all, that Australian-dual citizens who joined ISIS – or any other similar hostile foreign state – now, or in the future, will ever be permitted to return.

Instead, the charade continues.

One of the West’s flaws is allowing our system to be exploited by people who apparently hate our country and the peaceful citizens within it.