A group of ISIS-linked Australians are expected to take up an offer for government-offered health assistance after touching down in Sydney.Two flights carrying the group of women and children landed in Melbourne and Sydney on Tuesday evening.Federal police are patrolling the arrival gates and a media pack has gathered in anticipation of the group leaving the airport.NewsWire understands the four women and six children arriving in Sydney will be offered government health assistance through the NSW Department of Communities and Justice.They will be given the option to be transported out of the airport once they are cleared through customs, or leave via the public arrivals gate.None of the brides are expected to be arrested.It remains unclear if any family will greet the women and children at the airport.In Melbourne, it is understood three men acting as “security” have positioned themselves next to the arrivals barrier awaiting the women and children to disembark.The group of seven women and 2 children left the Al-Roj refugee camp on Thursday and headed to Damascus, where they boarded flights bound for Australia.A number of Australian Federal Police officers are patrolling the arrivals hall at Sydney International Airport, while a large media presence has gathered waiting for the flight to touch down.Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke earlier confirmed the government would continue to “not provide any assistance to this group”. “These are people who have made the horrific choice to join a dangerous terrorist organisation and to place their children in an unspeakable situation,” Mr Burke said. “As we have said many times – any members of this cohort who have committed crimes can expect to face the full force of the law.” He said law enforcement and intelligence agencies had been preparing for Australians returning from Syria for more than a decade, and had “longstanding plans in place to manage and monitor them”.”The priority of the government, as always, is the safety of the Australian community,” he said.The majority of those travelling from Syria are understood to be on a connecting Qatar Airways flight from Doha set to land in Sydney about 5.30pm, The Daily Telegraph reports.The group departed al-Roj internment camp on Friday by bus and later reached Damascus, before acquiring plane tickets to begin their journey home. Save the Children, a prominent advocate for the repatriation of the group, welcomed news of their arrival. “These innocent children have endured years in dangerous and unstable conditions, and we have held serious concerns for their safety and wellbeing,” Save the Children Australia chief executive Mat Tinkler said. “The political debate surrounding their future in Australia has been deeply disappointing. “As Australian citizens, it was always a matter of ‘when’ these women and children came home, not ‘if’. “While much attention has focused on the circumstances of the mothers, two thirds of the returning group are children.” He said Australia must prioritise the children’s “safety, wellbeing and right to live in this country as Australian citizens”. But the Coalition has criticised the group’s return, with Nationals leader Matt Canavan claiming the government had “exposed Australians to unnecessary risks”. “We know from the previous arrivals that some of these individuals have been charged with terror-related offences, so that is a risk,” he told Sky News. “It’s still completely unclear to me why the government hasn’t used the powers it has to exclude people temporarily at least.”One Australian woman who was part of the cohort living in al-Roj has been issued with a temporary exclusion order (TEO) by Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke on the advice of ASIO. It bans her from returning to the country for up to two years on the grounds of national security.NewsWire understands this woman remains in Syria. Her child, to whom the TEO doesn’t apply, remains with her. Earlier this month, four women and nine children previously living in al-Roj returned to Australia. Three of those women were arrested and charged by the Australian Federal Police upon arrival at Melbourne and Sydney airports.Two of the women were charged with crimes against humanity offences, while another was charged with terrorism offences. AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett said ahead of the first group’s arrival that children in the cohort would be asked to participate in “community integration programs, therapeutic support, and countering violent extremism” programs.The Albanese government has insisted it has no sympathy for the group and has repeatedly refused to repatriate them from Syria.But it could not stop the group of Australian citizens from being provided passports, which they received earlier this year through intermediary Jamal Rifi, a prominent Sydney doctor.Read related topics:MelbourneSydney