AUSTRALIA_ Australia to take 4,400 refugees from Syria and Iraq, Scott Morrison says

Australia to take 4,400 refugees from Syria and Iraq, Scott Morrison says

Updated yesterday at 11:38pm
ABC NEWS

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says the success of the Government's border protection policies means Australia will offer to resettle 4,400 people fleeing violence in Iraq and Syria.


The places are from the existing refugee and special humanitarian programs, with 2,200 set aside for each country.

Last week, Mr Morrison announced the Government had opened its annual humanitarian refugee program to Iraqi Christians and Yazidis in response to the Iraq crisis.

He says asylum seekers who come by boat are no longer filling the places in the refugee intake.

"Our effective border protection and changes we've made mean we can, with certainty, guarantee and plan to take people in these distressing situations," he said.

"They'll have to follow all the normal processes of course: the health, security and identity checks."

Mr Morrison says the program is open to people of all religions.

"Predominantly, we will address this program with no particular view to one's religion but one's state of persecution," he said.

"It's quite clear there are many Christians fleeing persecution in Iraq at present. Similarly there are people of other faiths who face persecution.

"We're going to ensure our program addresses these needs."

Under Australia's annual program there are 13,750 places, but more than 4,000 visas are set aside to refugees who are "most in need of resettlement" due to desperate circumstances.

About 1 million people have been displaced by the fighting in Iraq.

On Saturday night, the US carried out nine air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants to help Kurdish troops retake a crucial dam in northern Iraq.

US Central Command said fighter jets and drones destroyed or damaged four armoured personnel carriers, seven armed vehicles, two Humvees and another armoured vehicle in the action.

A senior Kurdish military official, Major General Abdelrahman Korini, said the Peshmerga have seized control of the eastern side of the dam.

The dam provides electricity to northern parts of the country and is key to efforts by Islamic State militants to provide electricity to areas under their control.

UK should be ready to use military action against IS: Cameron

British prime minister David Cameron, writing in Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper, said the UK should be ready to use military action against IS militants.

In the paper Mr Cameron talked repeatedly about Britain using its military prowess and military action alongside diplomacy to defeat the group.

The prime minister called it a battle against a poisonous ideology, but did not detail the specifics of what that may involve.

IS militants stormed the Sinjar area of north-western Iraq last week, prompting tens of thousands of people, many of them Yazidis, to take refugee in the mountains.

Kurdish fighters on the ground and US air strikes eventually helped most of those trapped to escape after more than 10 days under siege, but some remain in the mountains.

The latest air strikes also targeted Erbil where the US has a consulate, and the country currently has a team of 130 military personnel in the city.

The US has asked European countries to supply arms and ammunition to Kurdish forces fighting the IS jihadists, signalling a widening of the international role in the conflict.

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