One of the women and children looking to return to Australia has been banned entering the country under a temporary exclusion order, the Home Affairs Minister has confirmed.

If only the threatened return of the “ISIS brides” and their children was made a teaching moment. Maybe then Australians wouldn’t be so scared of letting them come back.

Last October, Rod Hutchings of the Australian Peacekeeper and Peacemaker Veterans’ Association paused to remember three Australian soldiers who were killed in a green-on-blue attack by an Afghanistan National Army soldier in 2011.

Former Australian Federal Police detective superintendent David Craig has warned ISIS brides attempting to return to Australia pose an "unacceptable risk" to the community.

Encrypted messages from women living inside the Al Roj camp in northern Syria have revealed that 34 Australian ISIS-linked women and children were working with a government “delegate” who conducted DNA testing before issuing them passports.