The prime minister underlined the government would not allow Australian "jihadists" fighting in overseas conflicts back into the country.
The one-off documentary is shot in Leech's distinctive hand-held camera style and features the first emotional encounter between the Mosque's charismatic young communications manager and a distraught sister of one of the three Bethnal Green schoolgirls who flew out to join Isis jihadists in Syria.
In the deeply troubling phenomenon of suburban jihadists, young people with narcissistic traits may also be attracted to what terrorism expert Raphaello Pantucci calls "jihadi cool".
In Isis he would find true "brothers" who would value him, whom he could impress with his willingness to die, such as the burly jihadists flanking him in that photograph.
And especially, one might add, in mass killers and jihadists.
Abadi, a veteran of Iraq's post-Saddam Hussein governments, was appointed on Monday after the country's president effectively deposed Maliki in an effort to break the political deadlock that has paralysed the government while jihadists sweep through the north of the country.
That task follows from the June arrival of US military "advisers", but Austin offered no indication of when it will bear fruit in terms of pushing Isis out of Iraqi territory the jihadists have seized.
This has been taken by some people as me expressing support for jihadists.
If there are 50 jihadists in Australia who would fight with Isis (unlikely), that represents about two Australians in a million who are sharply at odds with us.
Related: Hillary Clinton email controversy is back as Benghazi and iPad questions loom In an August 2014 interview, Clinton went so far as to use the word "failure" in describing the Obama policy in Syria, saying: "The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad... left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled".
The jihadists of IS [the Islamic State] will most certainly test political resolve as well as security challenges".
