A mayor believes western Sydney residents are the real victims of the resettlement of ISIS brides, as he repeatedly questioned the government on its failure to speak with the community earlier ahead of Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil's visit.
Fairfield Mayor Frank Carbone has been vocal about the four women and 13 children who were repatriated in a secret Australian Security Intelligence Organisation mission from a Syrian camp and resettled in his city earlier this month.
"We’re a very welcoming community... but the one thing we can’t have is people that actually perpetrated or affiliated to people that have committed terrible crimes actually living next door to our community who actually escaped them." Mr Carbone feared sections of the community who fled from Islamic State regimes for a better life in Australia would be forced to"live next door" to the IS brides.
"We haven’t heard the government put any of them in Melbourne so far and that’s where their families are," he said."So the government needs to answer that and in regards to saying their families are here, well this is where their families were when they left and they were happy to leave this country and their family at the time and actually go overseas and aid and abet those fighting against Australian soldiers.
Mr Carbone told Sky News he hopes to have an"open and honest" conversation with Ms O'Neil but will make sure he expresses the communities concerns. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman "A good result for us is they are not resettled in Fairfield, not next to victims and the government looks at other places and... treats every area the same," he said."Why is that? Why is that the case? Why is it always western Sydney? Why’s it always us? Is it because we don’t have a voice? Well I can tell you we do have a voice and we will stand up for our community and we’re going to make sure that we speak up.
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