{"id":699331,"date":"2026-05-28T05:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699331\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:02:15","slug":"australia-news-live-isis-bride-charged-chalmers-introduces-cgt-negative-gearing-changes-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/699331\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: \u2018ISIS bride\u2019 charged; Chalmers introduces CGT, negative gearing changes to parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government is not tracking how many Australians have travelled overseas to serve in foreign militaries such as the Russian and Israeli armies, officials have told Senate estimates hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Greens senator David Shoebridge pressed Home Affairs officials at Senate estimates hearings on Thursday about why it was legal for Australians to fight for foreign armies and whether the government was keeping records of those who did so.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Senator David Shoebridge.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4c0fea9791690ebf59e7cb7c4c5f76acb7572c5c.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Senator David Shoebridge.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t track Australians overseas,\u201d Australian Border Force commissioner Gavan Reynolds said when asked about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Australian law permits Australian dual nationals to serve in overseas militaries, but not for non-state actors.<\/p>\n<p>At least 502 Australian-Israeli dual nationals are enrolled in the Israeli military, information obtained by the Israeli non-government organisation Hatzlacha through freedom of information laws shows.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Australians should be allowed to serve in the Russian military given that country\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, Environment Minister Murray Watt said: \u201cWe would not encourage Australians to do that. We have held a strong position that Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine is illegal, immoral, unjustified \u2013 every other negative adjective you can think of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government is not tracking how many Australians have travelled overseas to serve in foreign militaries such&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-699331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}