Mariam Dabboussy landed in Sydney on Saturday morning.
The 31-year-old and her three children were among a planeload rescued by the Australian government from the Al-Roj refugee camp in Northern Syria, where they have been languishing for three years since the fall of IS-held Baghouz.
In a statement on Saturday, the government confirmed it had repatriated four Australian women and their 13 Australian children and that "allegations of unlawful activity will continue to be investigated… (and) any identified offences may lead to law enforcement action being taken".
But 9News understands criminal charges are unlikely.
Dabboussy is the subject of voluntary orders but she is not required to wear an ankle bracelet, is not under 24-hour police supervision, nor is she subject to strict terrorism control orders, because there is no legal basis for any of it.
On Saturday, 9News was told the rescued families were being held in a secure location to be interviewed by police.
But by Sunday afternoon, Dabboussy was at her family home near Blacktown, her three children enjoying a visit to a park, exploring flying foxes and play equipment.
The Dabboussys young son has been obsessed with the greenery of their western Sydney backyard, while their eight-year-old daughter is malnourished, currently the weight of a four-year-old.
All three children have dental issues and are now on the search for schools in the new year.
They are receiving medical and counselling support from the NSW government.
Daboussy left her Condell Park home with her husband Kaled Zahab in 2015.
She claims she thought she was going on holiday to Turkey.
Her husband died fighting for IS three months after they arrived.
In a 2019 interview, she told the ABC that she was tricked into coming to Syria by her husband.
Her father Kamalle maintains there is no evidence to say she joined IS.
Dabboussy's sister-in-law, 31-year-old Mariam Raad, was also on Saturday's plane home with her four children.
Raad, who may have been in Syria as early as 2013, is the widow of Muhammad Zahab, a former western Sydney maths teacher who became one of Australia's most senior IS leaders.
He is accused of luring at least a dozen of his extended family to Syria, including his brother Kaled.
Yazidi refugee Salam Qaro, now settled in Armidale, has told 9News the women are dangerous "for everyone that lives in Australia".
Qaro escaped northern Iraq in 2019, where he says IS committed horrible and brutal crimes against the Yazidi people.
He doesn't believe the IS widows' claim that they were all coerced to Syria and doesn't think they can be rehabilitated.
"They are very dangerous," he said.
"To be honest, if not today, next year, if not next year, in the future.
"They made their decision and they went to be part of (IS) and be part of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
"And they shouldn't be back anyway, in any case at all.
"Because they chose to go and be part of killing the people and the Yazidi community."
Qaro says the Australian government should instead be "locating more places for the Yazidis and for the people who make Australia better, not bringing those people who make Australia worried and (put us in) danger".
After being informed of the prime minister's rescue plans, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet wrote to Anthony Albanese seeking assurances the NSW cohort was assessed as presenting no risk to the community, intelligence agencies were monitoring the individuals and that resettlement and reintegration costs were subsidised by the federal government.
The state government has received no response.
The Morrison government refused to repatriate the women and children in 2019 due to security risks.
On Sunday, shadow minister for home affairs Karen Andrews said she was "concerned for the people of Australia".
"I am concerned about what will be put in place to make sure that these women and children are not in a position that they will cause any risk at all to Australian people," she said.
The families of the IS widows have been campaigning with advocacy group Save the Children to bring them home for years.
"They are victims of war," CEO Mat Tinkler told 9News.
"And first and foremost they're children.
"These kids are innocent and we have to get them the benefit of the doubt. They are Aussie citizens at the end of the day.
"Other countries around the world, the US, Germany, Denmark, have all made this choice.
"It's a difficult choice but at the end of the day a country has to take responsibility for its own citizens."
The prime minister yesterday said: "These are Australian citizens who are entitled to be in Australia … our one and only priority is to keep Australians safe.
"We're following national security advice on all of those matters and will continue to do so."
Another 43 Australian women and children are expected to be repatriated from the Syrian camp in the next few months.
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