The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a plane and crash it into Tel Aviv started going off the rails into radicalisation while he was in Melbourne on an international student visa. UAE prosecutors say he got mixed up with people connected to an Australian Islamic centre called My Centre. That same centre later got more than $68,000 of Australian taxpayers’ money from the Labor government. In the Senate I asked a simple question: did anyone bother to check with ASIO or the Federal Police before handing over that cash? Did the minister or his department even do a Google search or look at the Facebook pages of these organisations before giving them taxpayer money? The minister wouldn’t give a straight answer. One Nation did a simple google search and found dozens of extreme Islamic hatred posts from the organisation. Australians deserve to know whether this government is doing even the most basic checks before it funnels hundreds of millions of dollars into multicultural groups and risks funding terrorism. Obviously, this government doesn't care. They're more interested in bribing radical Islamists with taxpayer money.

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Media Release: Labor grants went to mosque linked to accused FlyDubai terrorist hijacker Tony Burke faces serious security questions after reports that an Australian Islamic organisation linked to the accused FlyDubai terrorist hijacker received multiple multiculturalism grants from the Albanese Labor government. One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said these shocking revelations raise serious questions about whether Labor’s multicultural grants program is shovelling taxpayer money into centres promoting radical Islamic extremism. “This is an extraordinary and deeply concerning revelation,” Senator Hanson said. “The radicalisation of the man accused of trying to hijack an aircraft and carry out a 9/11-style terrorist attack reportedly began in Melbourne as an international student. Now we learn the Islamic organisation he associated with received not one, but two taxpayer-funded grants from the Albanese Labor government in the last two financial years. “The ASIO terrorist threat level in Australia is currently ‘probable’, meaning a greater than 50% chance of a terrorist attack or attempted attack in the next 12 months. Labor now appears to be handing out grants without even properly checking who it is funding. “The prospect that taxpayer funds could be furthering terrorist activities is a truly shocking revelation. “Tony Burke must answer whether he or his department sought security advice before signing off these grants and whether any other organisations linked to people under ASIO investigation have received taxpayer money under this program. “Multicultural grants have exploded under the Albanese Labor government, rising from less than $6 million in 2022–23 to more than $325 million in 2025–26, with 94% going to Labor seats last year. “The same government that refused to name radical Islamic terrorism for days after the Bondi massacre, dragged its feet on a Royal Commission, and fails to confront Islamic extremism head-on is now at risk of funding extremism too. “We need the power to shut down the prayer halls where this terror is preached. We need foreign preachers who incite violence on a plane out of this country. We need the ones born here in front of a judge. And we need ASIO and the Federal Police resourced to dismantle these networks. “One Nation will keep exposing where this money has gone and demanding tougher enforcement against radical Islamic terrorists and their backers. “Bondi should have ended the excuses for this Labor government. This revelation shows Tony Burke’s excuses cannot continue.”