@am*3 wrote:Does Abbott even know what he is talking a out most of the time?
No charges for suspected foreign fighters Matthew Gardiner and George Khamis
Two Australian residents suspected of travelling to the Middle East to assist in the battle against Islamic State have not been charged with any offences weeks after returning to Australia.
Tough new laws passed by Parliament last year, which include life sentences for those who participate in hostile activities overseas, were drafted to apply equally to those on all sides of foreign conflicts.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that anyone who returns to Australia after becoming a foreign fighter will be arrested and charged, after reports emerged that three Australians who joined IS in Syria or Iraq are in talks with the government about potentially returning home.
"A crime is a crime is a crime," Mr Abbott said.
"If you go abroad to break Australian law, if you go abroad to kill innocent people in the name of misguided fundamental extremism, if you go abroad to be an Islamist killer, well we are hardly going to welcome you back into this country."
Former Northern Territory Labor official Matthew Gardiner, who reportedly travelled overseas to help Kurdish forces fight IS militants, returned to Australia in early April. Mr Gardiner, who was deployed to Somalia in the 1990s with the Australian Army, was questioned by police upon his return before being released without charge. He has refused to comment publicly on why he travelled to Syria.
Melbourne father of two George Khamis returned to Australia in March after travelling to Iraq to join an Assyrian militia group, Dwekh Nawsha. Mr Khamis allowed Channel Seven's Sunday Night to interview him while he was in Iraq about his mission.
Mr Khamis was also questioned at the airport and released without charge.
SMH
"If you go abroad to break Australian law, if you go abroad to kill innocent people in the name of misguided fundamental extremism, if you go abroad to be an Islamist killer, well we are hardly going to welcome you back into this country."
This is what he said and this is acceptable to millions of Australians who support what the PM is doing to protect our country.
no clothes....again 
@idlewhile wrote:
@am*3 wrote:Does Abbott even know what he is talking a out most of the time?
No charges for suspected foreign fighters Matthew Gardiner and George Khamis
Two Australian residents suspected of travelling to the Middle East to assist in the battle against Islamic State have not been charged with any offences weeks after returning to Australia.
Tough new laws passed by Parliament last year, which include life sentences for those who participate in hostile activities overseas, were drafted to apply equally to those on all sides of foreign conflicts.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that anyone who returns to Australia after becoming a foreign fighter will be arrested and charged, after reports emerged that three Australians who joined IS in Syria or Iraq are in talks with the government about potentially returning home.
"A crime is a crime is a crime," Mr Abbott said.
"If you go abroad to break Australian law, if you go abroad to kill innocent people in the name of misguided fundamental extremism, if you go abroad to be an Islamist killer, well we are hardly going to welcome you back into this country."
Former Northern Territory Labor official Matthew Gardiner, who reportedly travelled overseas to help Kurdish forces fight IS militants, returned to Australia in early April. Mr Gardiner, who was deployed to Somalia in the 1990s with the Australian Army, was questioned by police upon his return before being released without charge. He has refused to comment publicly on why he travelled to Syria.
Melbourne father of two George Khamis returned to Australia in March after travelling to Iraq to join an Assyrian militia group, Dwekh Nawsha. Mr Khamis allowed Channel Seven's Sunday Night to interview him while he was in Iraq about his mission.
Mr Khamis was also questioned at the airport and released without charge.
SMH
"If you go abroad to break Australian law, if you go abroad to kill innocent people in the name of misguided fundamental extremism, if you go abroad to be an Islamist killer, well we are hardly going to welcome you back into this country."
This is what he said and this is acceptable to millions of Australians who support what the PM is doing to protect our country.
no clothes....again
Comprehension issues?
Read the sentence in red, in my post. Which is also the point of the articke - Govt not doing what it said it was going to do.
