
In her Mamamia column this week, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop writes about the radicalisation of vulnerable young Australian women.
Over the past six months there have been attacks on two police officers in Melbourne, the death of two innocent hostages in the Martin Place siege, and a thwarted but imminent terrorist plot for a random beheading in Sydney.
In December two young girls fled Sydney to become Jihadi brides in Syria and last week we learned of the extent of preparations for terror attacks on Australian soil – preparations of an 18-year-old from Melbourne whom we believe has killed himself in a suicide bombing in Iraq.
Related content: Australian teenager Jake Bilardi has reportedly died in a suicide bombing in Iraq.
Vulnerable young Australians are being radicalised by violent extremist groups and are seeking to join Daesh (ISIL) and other terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. While most of these foreign terrorist fighters were initially men, they are now being joined by increasing numbers of women and girls.
