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Key members of the shadow ministry have made geese of themselves on the national stage in the last week— but no-one will be getting an angry phone call from the boss while his head is down and he’s hiding from his own past.

With one single comment, shadow attorney general Mark Dreyfus did irreparable damage to Labor’s national security credentials.

His declaration that he wanted to bring Australian terrorists with dual citizenship home to face our justice system demonstrated that he just doesn’t get the gravity of the issue.

Dreyfus’ comments not only went directly against Labor’s otherwise confused position in this debate, it failed the ‘man on the street test’.

Other than America-hating, far-left ideologues and Islamofacist sympathisers, not many people want to extend terrorists the benefit of the doubt.

The response from Dreyfus is classic ‘lawyer-think’ and this is precisely why the government wants to change the rules.

Lawyers naturally believe the judiciary has all the answers. Prior to politics, Dreyfus was a practicing Queen’s Counsel.

So when Mark Dreyfus the QC was asked, “How do you convict someone fighting in Syria?” his pompous reflex response was, “You get them back here”.

That’s how barristers think, but it’s also breathtakingly naive.

If a dual citizen combatant had the right to have his conduct judged in an Australian court under our evidence rules considering the likely rough chance authorities would have to prepare a proper case in ISIS controlled territory, the prosecution would fall to bits.

That’s not to say that the terrorist is innocent – it’s just that the case would be too hard to prove in our strict and extremely legal framework.

It would be a lawyer’s picnic and no doubt 100 per cent funded by legal aid.