Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

That is not what I am saying. But what you are doing is you are actually putting them on other people's streets and you are giving them the opportunity to kill our men and women in uniform. That is what you are doing. You know what? Why don't you (a) put them in jail 23 hours a day for the rest of their life or (b) give the courts the option of using the death penalty? Wouldn't that be a much better option?

Overnight or in the last few days, we have heard news that the US are deploying extra special service troops in northern Iraq so that they can work with the Kurdish forces in their collective fight against ISIS. So what has happened in reality is that our major military partner, the US, is teaming up with a group of people who your government says are official terrorists. Is that correct?