Border security
Who are the IS brides trying to get home?
Eleven family groups – 34 individuals – who have been stuck in Syrian internment camps for years are trying to make their way home. Why were they in Syria in the first place?
- Michael Bachelard
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- National security
Bring these Australian children home, PM. They did not make their own beds
Preventing the return of women and children trapped in Syria will not make Australia safer.
- Fionnuala Ni Aolain and Ben Saul
‘That was a long way of saying yes’: Tony Burke admits ISIS brides have Australian passports
The home affairs minister earlier confirmed he had used a temporary exclusion order to bar one of the 34 Australian citizens from returning home.
- Michael Bachelard, Brittany Busch, Mohammed Hassan and Alexander Darling
‘We’re taking it seriously’: Australia monitoring India’s outbreak of deadly Nipah virus
However, infectious diseases experts have questioned why recent cases have caused such a response abroad.
- Brittany Busch and Kate Aubusson
Australians to be forced to provide their social media to enter the US
Applying for a visa waiver is also set to get more complicated under the new plan, with authorities seeking to collect far more detailed information including biometrics, IP addresses and metadata and family histories.
- Michael Koziol
What could fix airports’ long arrival queues? A race for the Olympics
Passengers arriving after 14-hour-flights must often wait 40 minutes in queues to scan their passports in kiosks before exiting the airport.
- Chris Zappone
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- WA
‘Who are these people?’ Hastie sounds alarm after Chinese nationals found wandering in remote Aboriginal community
It is the second time a group of foreign nationals have been detained after arriving by boat in the remote Kimberley region since February 2024.
- Hannah Murphy
Border authorities detain foreign nationals found wandering in WA community
WA police handed over the six men, who were found wandering in the remote Aboriginal community Kalumburu earlier this week, to border authorities.
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- WA
Chinese men detained after being found wandering in remote WA coastal town
Six Chinese nationals were found by authorities at the community of Kalumburu on Western Australia’s remote northern coast earlier this week.
- Hannah Murphy
Australia leaves the fate of its IS brides to the American army
Documents released in Senate estimates show the 37 Australian women and children could be extracted from Syria by the US military with one simple move by Australia.
- Michael Bachelard