An Australian man considered one of Islamic State's top recruiters has been placed on a United Nations financial terror sanctions list.
It will be a crime, punishable by 10 years' jail, for anyone to associate with Melbourne-raised Neil Prakash, who also goes by the name of Abu Khaled al-Cambodi.
"Prakash has incited vulnerable young people to commit violent, extreme acts, including in Australia," Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told parliament on Thursday.
The 23-year-old has used social media to spread violent extremism and recruit young women and girls to travel to Syria and Iraq to join IS and has featured in online propaganda for the terrorist group.
Australia now lists 93 people and entities under the UN resolution on anti-terror sanctions.
Prakash, whose IS fighter name reflects his Cambodian heritage, had a short-lived recording career as a hip hop artist known as Kree Dafa before leaving Australia for Syria and joining the extremists.
The listing came as Opposition Leader Bill Shorten indicated Labor's conditional support for new laws to strip citizenship from dual nationals fighting for terror groups overseas.
"We think it is a sensible development in principle," he told reporters in Canberra.
The "gift of Australian citizenship" should not be available to those prepared to be part of terrorist organisations, he said.
However, he sought a briefing on the details of legislation "as a matter of urgency".
Prime Minister Tony Abbott promised Labor a briefing, but not before a bill was introduced to parliament most likely the week after next.
This will mean the Labor caucus won't get to discuss the legislation until at least June 23.
"We will provide all appropriate briefings in a timely fashion to opposition frontbenchers so that as far as reasonably possible the bipartisanship on this important issue can be maintained," Mr Abbott told parliament.
Asked by Labor whether he had brought in the federal police to examine a cabinet leak detailing some ministers' concerns about the citizenship changes, Mr Abbott said it was an "insider question".
Cabinet minister Peter Dutton threw his weight behind a coalition backbench push for further toughening of citizenship laws, which could go as far as stripping sole Australian citizens involved in terrorism of their citizenship.
"If people are going to try and you know, this barbaric act of trying to cut peoples' heads off or blow people up, well, I'm sorry, you don't deserve to be an Australian citizen," he said.
Labor frontbencher Richard Marles said the government needed to address national security in a "calm, methodical way".
"All we have seen here is an increasing level of rhetoric against a backdrop of division and leaks," he said.
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