Sometimes in politics, it is not the issue at hand but what it reveals.

The “elite” in this country see ordinary Australians as ignorant or xenophobic rather than stakeholders in national decisions.

A case in point is this week’s saga over the plan to secretly repatriate Australian ISIS brides and their children from hell hole Syria to the civilised and safe suburbia of Melbourne and Sydney.

Amid interjections and jeers this week, PM Anthony Albanese insisted reports of this shocking mission were “not accurate”.

However just hours later, NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Dave Hudson, a veteran counter-terror chief, said he’d been briefed about the operation, as revealed by Sky News host Sharri Markson.

Pressed again on this issue during Thursday’s Question Time, Mr Albanese did not back

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