There are only two words necessary to sum up the government's move to deport convicted terrorists: Good riddance.
No doubt some on the Left and the usual civil libertarians will twist themselves in knots trying to find ways to argue why those who have actively plotted against Australia should somehow still be entitled to remain citizens of the country they wish to destroy. 
Let them try - after all, their freedom of expression is one of the many things such extremists are trying to extinguish. However, such arguments won't find a home in sensible mainstream Australia.
Why, for example, should the notorious Algerian-born Melbourne terror-plot ringleader Abdul Nacer Benbrika be allowed the privilege of Australian citizenship?
Or indeed several other dual-nationals currently fighting for terrorist organisations overseas?
Whatever their paperwork status, it is clear these people are not truly Australians. By their very words and deeds they stand against everything this great country stands for. Again, we can no doubt expect the usual Abbott-haters and ideologues to pick apart this eminently sensible move.
After all, they will say, has Australia not bred other criminals? Do we not have murderers and rapists of our own?
Sadly, like any other nation composed of human beings, of course we do. And The Telegraph has always been at the vanguard in demanding any who cause harm face the full force of the law.
However, terrorism is a special category of crime. It represents not just a malformed individual inflicting pain on his or her fellow humans but a declaration of war on Australia itself: our society, our way of life and all of us as individuals.
One need only consider the random brutality of the Martin Place siege to know that this ideology is an attack on both everyone and anyone, as the two innocent victims of that sad day have realised with their lives.
And of course, much as we might like to dispatch other actual or would-be killers far from our shores, the reality is only those who hold allegiance to another country as well as our own can be disposed of in such a way under international law. Indeed, it might well be argued that Australia has enough criminal reprobates under its own jurisdiction without having to wear the burden of those imported from elsewhere.
But in truth such arguments will matter little to the average Australian, who knows in their bones that we are a warm and welcoming country for those happy to share our freedom and tolerance.Those who wish to destroy it have no place here.