The Australian government will be able to strip the children of extremists fighting overseas of Australian citizenship under controversial legislation introduced into parliament Wednesday.
Details of the so-called Allegiance to Australia bill were unveiled as the mother-in-law of one man believed killed in Iraq while fighting for Islamic State group pleaded for his wife and children to be allowed to return home.
Karen Nettleton, the mother of Khaled Sharrouf's wife, Tara, said her daughter had made the "mistake of a lifetime."
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