"We're providing absolutely no support and we are not repatriating people,"
"We have no sympathy, frankly, for people who traveled overseas in order to participate in what was an attempt to establish a caliphate to undermine, destroy, our way of life. And so, as my mother would say, 'You make your bed, you lie in it,'"
Thirty-four women and children from 11 families were due to fly from Damascus to Australia but were returned by Syrian authorities to Roj camp in northeast Syria because of procedural problems. Only two groups of Australians have been repatriated with government help since the fall of the Islamic State group in 2019, while others have returned without government assistance. The Australian government will not repatriate or provide support for the group. The prime minister noted Save the Children failed to establish a legal duty for repatriation in court. Returnees who come without government help could face charges related to travel to al-Raqqa between 2014 and 2017, carrying up to a 10-year penalty.
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