Facing widespread calls by the Australian public to accept more refugees from the wars in West Asia, the Australian government announced that it would take an additional 13,500 refugees from Syria. This intake will concentrate on bringing in the ‘most oppressed communities’, a sentence that for many refugee advocates means ‘anyone but Muslims’. On the same day, the government announced that it was going to expand its military campaign against Islamic State from Iraq into Syria.
Facing widespread calls by the Australian public to accept more refugees from the wars in West Asia, the Australian government announced that it would take an additional 13,500 refugees from Syria. This intake will concentrate on bringing in the ‘most oppressed communities’, a sentence that for many refugee advocates means ‘anyone but Muslims’. On the same day, the government announced that it was going to expand its military campaign against Islamic State from Iraq into Syria.
