House debates

Tuesday, 3 March 2026

Questions without Notice

National Security

3:08 pm

Photo of Melissa McIntoshMelissa McIntosh (Lindsay, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. According to the New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, around one-third of the ISIS sympathisers Labor is returning home will settle in New South Wales. Will any of these ISIS sympathisers settle in the Prime Minister's electorate of Grayndler, or will they all settle in Western Sydney?

3:09 pm

Photo of Mr Tony BurkeMr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | | Hansard source

The government is not resettling anyone. We're not settling anyone in the same way as the Morrison government, Turnbull government and Abbott government, when foreign fighters returned under your watch, didn't resettle them. They came on Australian passports and returned on the watch of the previous government. We are not involved in resettling any of these individuals. They asked to be repatriated. We refused.