Australia news live: woman to appear in court charged with joining Islamic State

Woman arrested at Sydney airport after arriving back from Syria last night; two more women face charges in Melbourne. Follow updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Gallagher says Australia will ‘spend what we need to’ regarding Syrian returnees Katy Gallagher , the finance minister, is speaking about the Syrian returnee cohort now on RN. She said the arrests yesterday and the government response to the women’s return had been managed “absolutely appropriately by the police and by our intelligence agencies”. The parents of these children have made a terrible decision to either take those children or have children in these camps or in these war zones. And those children I think are going to need a lot of assistance to reintegrate into Australia. They are Australian citizens. They obviously have entitlement to Australian citizenship. But we would support the efforts of the state governments, the police, and the intelligence agencies to make sure those children are supported and managed appropriately. We will spend what we need to spend to keep Australians safe. I would suggest that the opposition would have done exactly the same when they were in government. Continue reading...