Passport Law Overhaul Urged to Stop ‘ISIS Bride’ Cohort

Australian families affiliated with ISIS walk along a path before departure inside the Roj camp in al Malikiyah, Syria, on Feb. 15, 2026. Amjad Kurdo/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Laws should be tightened to stop an Islamic State-linked cohort from obtaining passports and returning to Australia, the opposition says.

But the minister responsible insists the threshold has not been reached to bar the group from receiving travel documents, despite declaring the government does not want them to return.