Three Sydney mayors will meet with Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil to voice their opposition to the repatriation of Australian wives and children of Islamist State fighters in the city’s southwest.
Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun says the resettlement of the families in western Sydney could involve re-traumatising recently arrived refugees such as Yazidis and Assyrians fleeing IS violence from Iraq and Syria.
“You would not put a victim of a crime next to the perpetrator or the person who is an accessory to the perpetrator,” Cr Mannoun told AAP.
“If the government has an obligation to bring them into the country, then that’s fine, but surely common sense says you do not put these people in these neighbourhoods….