Western Sydney mayors have been reassured their area won’t be used as a “dumping ground” for IS fighters' families. Families will instead be repatriated to where they travelled from in Australia. Read more:
Home Affairs Minister said there was quite "a lot of misinformation" about where group members were being resettled.A group of wives and children of fighters from the self-proclaimed Islamic State won't necessarily all end up in Western Sydney, but the government won't reveal exact locations, citing national security concerns.
He said he only learned this year that a similar resettlement had occurred in 2019 under Scott Morrison's Liberal-National government. The federal government last month repatriated four Australian women and 13 children stranded in Syria's al-Roj refugee camp since the defeat of ISIS.Department boss grilled for answers over Australian children caught in Syria
The talks on Friday come after the mayors told Prime Minister Anthony Albanese there were community concerns about the returnees.
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