Former Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott has declared spouses of ISIS fighters who left Australia have “no moral right to come back” and urged the opposition to table legislation to strip people who joined a terrorist group of their citizenship.

A top-secret operation to bring Australian ISIS brides back home from northern Syria was first reported on Tuesday, with The Australian stating a dozen women, children and young men were set to be evacuated out of camps and returned to New South Wales and Victoria before Christmas.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese then appeared to mislead Parliament on Wednesday when he insisted reporting around the ISIS bride operation was “not accurate.”

Sky News Australia’s Sharri Markson revealed on Thursday evening that NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Dave H

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