Taylor ratchets up rhetoric on ISIS brides
The Coalition’s push to make the ‘ISIS brides’ a major issue now includes attacks on Australian children, once seen as innocent by both sides.
If you were wondering what tone new Liberal leader Angus Taylor intended to strike after the party’s failed experiments with Peter Dutton and Sussan Ley, you got your answer during a confrontational 12-minute press conference on Monday.
Half an hour before his first question time as leader, Taylor fronted the cameras, flanked by members of the Australian Yazidi community, who were terrorised by Islamic State at the height of its power.
The new leader has seized on the fate of the so-called “ISIS brides”, Australian women who travelled to Iraq and Syria to join Islamic State, and their children, who are now stuck in squalid refugee camps and seeking to return home.
But the tone Taylor struck on Monday might have made even Scott Morrison — no darling of the left — raise an eyebrow.
