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ISIS brides behind bars after dramatic Australian return · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Christanamio with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Three so called Isis brides will spend
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  Speaker 1: time in police custody after returning to Australia from Syria.
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  Speaker 1: Corsa Abbas and her daughter, Zanab Hmad appeared in Melbourne's
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  Speaker 1: Magistrates Called on Friday, where they're charged with crimes against
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  Speaker 1: humanity offenses. Commonwealth prosecutors alleged fifty four year old Corsa
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  Speaker 1: Abbas was complicit in the purchase of a female slave
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  Speaker 1: for ten thousand US dollars after traveling to Syria with
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  Speaker 1: her husband in twenty fourteen. They say the woman was
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  Speaker 1: then knowingly kept in their home as a slave. She's
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  Speaker 1: been charged with enslavement, possessing a slave, using a slave,
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  Speaker 1: and engaging enslave trading, offenses that carry maximum penalties of
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years in prison. Prosecutors say Zanab Armad knowingly
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  Speaker 1: kept a slave in the family's Syrian home. She's been
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  Speaker 1: charged with enslavement and using a slave. Abbas and Armad
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  Speaker 1: arrived in Melbourne with Armad's children on Thursday night. The
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  Speaker 1: mother and daughter were arrested by the Victorian Joint Counter
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  Speaker 1: Terrorism Team at Melbourne Airport on their arrival. The women's lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Doug indicated his clients will formerly apply for bail
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. They've been held in the Al Roj camp
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  Speaker 1: in northern Syria since the collapse of the so called
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  Speaker 1: Islamic State Caliphate in twenty nineteen. Another woman, Jeni Safar,
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  Speaker 1: also arrived in Sydney on Thursday night, where she was
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  Speaker 1: charged by Australian Federal Police with entering and remaining in
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  Speaker 1: a declared conflict zone and joining the Islamic State terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 1: The former nursing student appeared in the Downing Center Local
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  Speaker 1: Court on Friday. Safar was refused bail and will remain
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  Speaker 1: in custody until her next hearing on July fifteen. Her
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  Speaker 1: legal representatives argued separating Safar from her young son would
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  Speaker 1: be quote potentially traumatic after years in the Syrian camp,
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  Speaker 1: but Judge Daniel Covington ruled that didn't meet the exceptional
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  Speaker 1: circumstances required for bail to be granted. Prime Minister Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Albanesi told Nova Radio anyone who's found to have broken
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  Speaker 1: the law will face quote the full force of the law.
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  Speaker 2: I have nothing but contempt for people who go overseas
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  Speaker 2: to essentially assist in whatever way people who want to
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  Speaker 2: attack our way of life. That's why though we have
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  Speaker 2: to do because we are different from us, we actually
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  Speaker 2: support the rule of law. Australian citizens are entitled to
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  Speaker 2: Australian passports, they're entitled to come into Australia. What we're
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  Speaker 2: entitled to do, though, is to throw the book at him,
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  Speaker 2: and that's precisely what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Sports Minister Anaka Wells has apologized for making what she
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  Speaker 1: calls honest mistakes in taxpayer funded travel expense claims. It
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  Speaker 1: emerged in December that Wells had charged taxpayers thousands of
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  Speaker 1: dollars for so called family reunion travel to make just
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  Speaker 1: sporting events around the country. An audit released by the
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  Speaker 1: Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority found four elements of twenty five
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  Speaker 1: of those trips didn't fully comply with the parliamentary expense rules.
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  Speaker 1: Well said in a statement she accepts the ipea's findings
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  Speaker 1: and has repaid the costs plus penalty loading to the
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  Speaker 1: tune of just over ten thousand dollars. The celebrated naturalist
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  Speaker 1: and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough turned one hundred on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: motherly sacrifice. That's right here, Saturday morning.