Terror Powers

Australia invoked rarely used counterterrorism powers Wednesday to temporarily ban one of its citizens detained in a Syrian camp from returning home, marking the government’s first explicit acknowledgment that someone among 34 Australians seeking repatriation poses a security threat significant enough to warrant exclusion despite citizenship rights.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke confirmed a temporary exclusion order was issued on security agency advice, preventing the unidentified individual, believed to be a woman, from entering Australia for up to two years even if she manages to leave Syria. “I can confirm that one individual in this cohort has been issued a …