Stumble with plan to prevent jihadists' return to Australia

By David Wroe, Mark Kenny
Updated June 25 2014 - 2:13pm, first published 8:08am
"We are looking at giving ASIS the capacity to carry out activities on Australians in Syria and Iraq": Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
"We are looking at giving ASIS the capacity to carry out activities on Australians in Syria and Iraq": Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Most of the Australians fighting with jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq are not dual nationals, the Abbott government has revealed, meaning it will be effectively impossible to stop them coming home.