Tony Burke ‘taking advice’ from security agencies about Australian women and children in Syria seeking to return

Temporary Exclusion Orders allow the home affairs minister to stop a person entering for up to two years, but there is a high bar for the powersFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHome affairs minister Tony Burke is “taking advice” from security agencies on whether Australian women and children in a Syrian detention camp should be temporarily banned from returning, but it is unclear how many in the cohort such an order would apply to.On Monday night, 34 Australian women and children – the wives, widows and children of dead or jailed Islamic State fighters – left from the al-Roj camp, in north-eastern Syria, after being released by Kurdish authorities for their expected repatriation to Australia. Continue reading…