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Labor under pressure over Australian repatriates from Syrian detention camp

The government is still facing heat over the return of six Australians from a Syrian detention camp.

We have taken the approach as a government not to provide assistance and the job of our security agencies in relation to these people, but also other people who they make an assessment about themselves, is to make sure that we keep Australians safe.

I don’t buy the line that there’s no assistance.

I [have] the most multicultural electorate in the country that has large population of Assyrian communities … these communities fled the ISIS regime.