(ABC-Australia) Australia is not ready for the children of Islamic State terrorists to return, after the caliphate’s fall in Syria, according to a leading developmental psychiatrist.
Approximately 70 children or young people of Australian IS fighters are stranded in refugee camps, according to a report by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation.
Debate has raged about what the federal government should do to help them, after emotional pleas from relatives of Australia’s most notorious IS terrorist, Khaled Sharrouf, to bring his orphan children Down Under.
Professor Louise Newman — one of Australia’s leading experts on the impact of trauma on children — said Australia was not ready for, or equipped to handle, the significant trauma to which children of terrorists have often been exposed.
