{"id":758141,"date":"2026-06-24T23:33:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758141\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T23:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:33:25","slug":"last-islamic-state-linked-australian-woman-from-syrian-camp-to-return-despite-previous-ban-australian-security-and-counter-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758141\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Islamic State-linked Australian woman from Syrian camp to return despite previous ban | Australian security and counter-terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Australian woman linked to the Islamic State<\/a> group has been given authorisation to return to Australia, after the government was advised it could no longer enforce a criminal exclusion order.<\/p>\n

The home affairs minister, Tony Burke<\/a>, said the woman would face an unprecedented level of security monitoring once she arrives in the country, including constant monitoring and requirements to report to authorities regularly.<\/p>\n

She is the last of a group of Australian women and children who sought to return home from a refugee camp in northern Syria, years after traveling to the Middle East with husbands and fathers who were fighting with the Islamic State terror group.<\/p>\n

Burke told ABC radio the permit to travel was the final stage of the temporary exclusion order process governing the woman\u2019s movements.<\/p>\n

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The original block on her return was issued after advice from spy agency Asio.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe temporary exclusion order applies until a [return] permit is issued. And when a permit is requested, a permit lawfully has to be issued,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been working through with my department, my agencies, Australian federal police and Asio, and with the lawyers to see every possible condition we can put on that permit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe received the final advice yesterday that we can no longer have an exclusion condition any longer for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman will be monitored at home and whenever she is in the community. The conditions of the permit require her to give 24 hours notice before using a communications device, such as a mobile phone or a public pay home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a very high level of scrutiny and surveillance,\u201d Burke said. \u201cThat\u2019s the absolute legal limit we\u2019ve been able to go to and our agencies are ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

But her return in coming days will spark renewed political criticism of Labor\u2019s handling of the group and the months-long drama of their attempts to return home.<\/p>\n

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The women and children all spent more than a decade in the Middle East, firstly under Islamic State rule, and then in squalid detention camps after escaping the violent end of the so-called caliphate.<\/p>\n

Some of the children were born in the camp and have never lived normal lives in Australia.<\/p>\n

Members of the group have already faced criminal charges after making it back to Australia,<\/a> including over alleged enslavement, joining a prescribed terror group and crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

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