Organisers of Australia’s major entertainment industry awards have banded together to recognise the talents of leading federal politicians and their handling of the return to Australia of the so-called “ISIS brides” and their children.

In an unprecedented move, three of the nation’s leading entertainment industry guilds have initiated a special award and plan to present it to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs and Immigration Minister, Tony Burke.

The new Political Football Award is the brainchild of the people behind the annual TV Week Logie Awards, the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, and the AWGIE Awards presented by the Australian Writers’ Guild.

Officials from all three groups tell me they have been impressed by the dramatic performances by Mr Albanese and Mr Burke when publicly discussing the ISIS brides.

“The pathos and fear-instilling performances by both men are world class and worthy of recognition,” one instigator of the new award said.

“The PM has done some of his best work by keeping a straight face and laying on with a trowel his and his government’s utter contempt for the women and by extension their children who are all Australian citizens and rightfully entitled to return to their homeland.

“The same goes for Tony Burke. He has backed up his leader’s performance by also scorning and denouncing the women, most of whom we understand have committed no crime yet are being presented as an imminent risk to our country.

“If you have seen or heard the PM’s or Mr Burke’s dramatic performances in recent months you would think the ISIS brides will be immediately donning suicide bomb vests and running amok down Martin Place as soon as they deplane at Sydney Airport. This is truly award-winning stuff by both men.”

The organisers of the new Political Football Award told me they had thought long and hard about its name.

“We had lots of meetings, first to agree on initiating the award and then discussing its name,” one confided to me.

“We had thought of the Dog Whistle Award or the Muslim Maligning Award, but finally settled on Political Football.

“We did all insist that the criteria for the award should recognise both men’s hypocrisy in their ceaseless pillorying of the ISIS brides.

“We all agreed that Mr Albanese and Mr Burke would never use the type of inflammatory rhetoric they have been applying to this group if they had been discussing, say, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been opening and ceaselessly committing real and atrocious offences such as mass genocide and war crimes.

“If they ever do deal with Bibi as they have the ISIS brides, we’re all happy to strike a new award,” the organiser told me.

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