{"id":40786,"date":"2026-02-18T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40786"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:04:26","slug":"australia-to-ban-citizen-from-returning-to-country-under-rarely-used-terror-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40786","title":{"rendered":"Australia to ban citizen from returning to country under rarely-used terror laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Australia said on Wednesday it would temporarily ban one of its citizens held in a Syrian camp from returning to the country, under rarely-used powers aimed at preventing terror activity.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-four Australians\u00a0in a northern Syrian facility holding families of suspected Islamic State militants are expected to return home after their release was conditionally approved by camp authorities.<\/p>\n<p>They were briefly freed on Monday before being turned back by Damascus for holding inadequate paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has already said it would not provide any assistance to those held in the camp, and is investigating whether any individuals posed a threat to national security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that one individual in this cohort has been issued a temporary exclusion order, which was made on advice from security agencies,&#8221; Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0Immigration judge rejects Trump effort to deport Palestinian student<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies have not yet advised that other members of the group meet the legal threshold for a similar ban, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced in 2019, the legislation allows for bans of up to two years for Australian citizens over the age of 14 that the government believes are a security risk.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday that some members of the cohort, which includes children, had aligned themselves with a &#8220;brutal, reactionary ideology and that seeks to undermine and destroy our way of life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, children are caught up in this, that&#8217;s not their decision, but it&#8217;s the decision of their parents or their mother,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>News of the families&#8217; possible return has caused controversy in Australia, where support for the right-wing, anti-immigration One Nation party has surged in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>A poll this week found One Nation&#8217;s share of the popular vote at a record high of 26%, above the combined support for the traditional centre-right coalition currently in opposition.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia said on Wednesday it would temporarily ban one of its citizens held in a Syrian camp from returning to the country, under rarely-used powers aimed at preventing terror activity. Thirty-four Australians\u00a0in a northern Syrian facility holding families of suspected Islamic State militants are expected to return home after their release was conditionally approved by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}