It remains unclear what steps the NT Government took - if any - to protect a 13-year-old girl who was promised off and raped by a man more than twice her age, with officials refusing to explain how ...

A Labor minister has delivered some of the harshest criticism yet about an IS-linked group of Australian women who went to a war zone with children.

The Albanese government has banned one of Australia’s “ISIS brides” in Syria from returning to Australia for up to two years but is set to allow 10 of the women and 23 children to come home.

The Albanese government’s refusal to co-operate in the repatriation of Australian women and children in Syria is akin to emotional and psychological torture ...