Guardian Australia · Australian foreign policy

Liberal senator breaks with party to urge ‘mercy for the children’ of IS-linked Australian women in Syria

· By Dan Jervis Bardy
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Backbencher Andrew McLachlan describes the 23 children as ‘innocents’ victimised by their parents’ ‘tragic attraction to a horrible ideology’

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