Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian Unclaire Harvey with the
Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. The Australian Federal Police say they'll be
Speaker 1: making arrests when so called Isis brides finally returned to Australia.
Speaker 1: On Thursday, a group of four women who were married
Speaker 1: to fighters of the Islamic State to hardest group, along
Speaker 1: with their nine children, are on their way back to
Speaker 1: Australia from Syria, where they've been held in grim refugee
Speaker 1: camps since the so called caliphate crumbled. It's the end
Speaker 1: of a long story of obfuscation by the federal government,
Speaker 1: State and Commonwealth officials have been preparing for the family's
Speaker 1: inevitable return, all while the government has denied any involvement,
Speaker 1: despite issuing them passports and making arrangements for their reintegration.
Speaker 1: Here's AFP Commissioner Chrissy Barrett.
Speaker 2: So for more than a decade, investigators when possible, have
Speaker 2: been collecting evidence and information in Syria at a time
Speaker 2: when Syria was a war zone with no functioning government.
Speaker 2: That evidence and information was to determine whether Australians who
Speaker 2: traveled to Syria may have committed Commonwealth offenses, including terrorism offenses.
Speaker 2: I will not flag how many individuals will be arrested
Speaker 2: or when they will be arrested to protect a number
Speaker 2: of our investigations. However, I will confirm these points. Some
Speaker 2: individuals will be arrested and charged, some will face continued
Speaker 2: investigations when they arrive in Australia.
Speaker 1: The Australian confirmed one of the women, Jenia Safar, will
Speaker 1: be arrested for questioning when she arrives in Sydney. Barrett
Speaker 1: said children returning to Australia from Syria will be required
Speaker 1: to join programs aimed at community integration and countering violent extremism.
Speaker 1: Police sources said the group would receive government assistance to
Speaker 1: help them reintegrate. Here's Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, there are.
Speaker 3: Very serious limits on what can be done with respect
Speaker 3: to preventing a citizen of a country returning to their country.
Speaker 3: The legal threshold that we have is with respect to
Speaker 3: temporary exclusion orders. I have received advice in one instance
Speaker 3: so far of that threshold having been met, and when
Speaker 3: I received that advice, I acted immediately and that exclusion
Speaker 3: order remaining in place.
Speaker 1: Australia Spyboss Mike Burgess said ASIO would monitor the group.
Speaker 4: Of course, it's up to them what they do when
Speaker 4: they get here, and if they start to exhibit signs
Speaker 4: of concern us, we and the police through the Joint
Speaker 4: Canniterrism Teams, will take action. But I'm not concerned immediately
Speaker 4: by their return, but they will get our attention as
Speaker 4: you'd expect.
Speaker 1: A man wearing a T shirt depicting a Nazi symbol
Speaker 1: outside public hearings of the Royal Commission into Anti Semitism
Speaker 1: and Social Cohesion was moved on on Wednesday. The man
Speaker 1: told members of the media his name is Ian Minus
Speaker 1: and he lives in Killany Heights in his north.
Speaker 5: Well, why are you here to make this protest ad?
Speaker 5: I'm sitting in the street, in a public street, so
Speaker 5: you'll tell you I have business in town and I
Speaker 5: wear this all the time.
Speaker 1: Do you know that it's illegal to wear a swastick?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, a swastika.
Speaker 1: The T shirts showed a Star of David over the
Speaker 1: Nazi symbol in the colors of the Israeli flag, along
Speaker 1: with the slogan anti Semitism, proud to be accused, Speak up,
Speaker 1: It's illegal to display Nazi symbols in public in New
Speaker 1: South Wales. Police said they were inquiring into the man's
Speaker 1: alleged offensive conduct. The Royal Commission said in a statement
Speaker 1: it is quote appalled by the man's presence and alleged conduct.
Speaker 1: The incident occurred on the third day of public hearings
Speaker 1: in the Royal Commission, where a teenage witness to the
Speaker 1: Bondai massacre told the proceedings she's traumatized. The alleged gunman,
Speaker 1: Navida A Kram, who authorities say opened fire on a
Speaker 1: huneker event at Bondai Beach, will face an additional nineteen
Speaker 1: charges related to his role in the attack. His father,
Speaker 1: fifty year old Sagid Akram, was shot dead by police
Speaker 1: at the scene. Navite Akram was charged with fifty nine offenses,
Speaker 1: including fifteen counts of murder and forty counts of attempted
Speaker 1: murder after waking from a coma. The fresh charges include
Speaker 1: shooting with attempt to murder and discharging a firearm with
Speaker 1: intent to resist arrest. Twenty four year old navite Akram
Speaker 1: has yet to enter a plea, but it's expected he
Speaker 1: will defend the chargers. Australia's fuel reserves will be extended
Speaker 1: to fifty days in next week's federal budget. The move,
Speaker 1: announced by Anthony Albanezi on Wednesday, increases the government's stockpile
Speaker 1: by ten days.
Speaker 5: The package will provide more than ten billion dollars to
Speaker 5: secure Australia's near term fuel and fertilizer security. Establish a
Speaker 5: permanent government owned Australian Fuel Security reserve of around a billion.
Speaker 5: Leaders Our Fuel Security Reserve focus on regional stockouts and
Speaker 5: supply constraints for essential users in the event of another
Speaker 5: supply crisis.
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