Under Sec. 119.2, (Entering declared areas) the maximum penalty is 10 years imprisonment; certainly not as piddling as home detention for a short period and being added to the watch list of 18,000 that cannot be administered properly by Australia’s Mickey Mouse security services.

" Maybe you were only talking about crimes by the Isis brides? "

Come to think of it Ipso, there might be some overlap. One of the accused had a slave who was repeatedly raped by the husband and son as well as being physically abused by all.

"So you are saying that Aussie pedophiles who abuse kids in other countries shouldn't face the music for it in Australia?"

That is exactly what I am saying.
When a crime is committed in another country, it is subject to the laws in that country, not ours.
Think about that for a while?

Oh, I see. Like Julian Shipton releasing all those names which likely got a lot of people tortured and killed? I think that Jules remarked that if something happened to them they had it coming. All okay with you because it happened in another country. Sounds a bit like getting off on a technicality. Now some people who support Jules's innocence also think that George Pell got off on a technicality, but they think that an injustice. As it was, the High Court considered that a guilty until proven innocent approach was taken at his trial and appeal and quashed his conviction.

As I said in a post yesterday, the crimes that were committed come under the Crimes Act and sec. 5.5.

Whatever the criminals now returning to Australia did in Syria or wherever should be the responsibility of the country where they did it in. Australia's action should be restricted to the Australian law they have broken, nothing else.

However, ‘extraterrestrial jurisdiction’ and international treaties seem to hold Australia to dealing with crimes by Australians, “regardless of geographical borders”. Including such matters as child sex offences, terrorism, and ‘modern’ slavery, for example.

As an anti-globalist, I believe that all countries should deal with whatever is against the law in their countries. Just because busy bodies get offended by what Australians do overseas does not necessarily mean a law has broken in that overseas country.

But bringing up child sex offences has taken the focus off this thread which is about Australians who have broken AUSTRALIAN law by going to a proscribed area of the world.

Posters concerned about Australian paedophiles in foreign countries should start their own threads. But, here are a couple of reasons that Australia has no need to be doing other countries’ prosecution for them. It could be said that Australia is interfering in other countries’ sovereignty or even suggesting that these countries are not capable of looking after their own people. Not a good look for the multiculturalists and the assertions that all cultures are equal to ours that our government is always banging on about.

“Authorities in countries like Indonesia, Cambodia, and the Philippines frequently arrest, prosecute, and imprison foreign child sex offenders. For instance, Indonesian courts have actively handed down significant prison sentences to Australian men convicted of child sexual abuse”.

“Regional governments (such as in Indonesia) work closely with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to flag known offenders. Australian border authorities and foreign immigration agencies frequently stop registered offenders at the airport and return them to Australia on the next flight”.