House debates Questions without Notice

National Security

Tuesday, 3 March 2026 House of Representatives

Melissa McIntosh

Melissa McIntosh Lindsay, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women

3:08 pm

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?

Mr Tony Burke

Mr Tony Burke Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House

3:09 pm

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.