Carmen Lazar speaking with a member of Sydney’s Assyrian community Source: SBS
Members from within Australia's Assyrian community are urging the federal government to speed up the resettlement of refugees from Syria and Iraq. Only a handful of families (26 individuals) of the 12-thousand people Australia committed to taking late last year have actually arrived. Assyrians are a Christian minority group present in Iraq and Syria, as well as other surrounding countries, whove has been targetted by the so-called Islamic State (IS).
Members from within Australia's Assyrian community are urging the federal government to speed up the resettlement of refugees from Syria and Iraq. Only a handful of families (26 individuals) of the 12-thousand people Australia committed to taking late last year have actually arrived. Assyrians are a Christian minority group present in Iraq and Syria, as well as other surrounding countries, whove has been targetted by the so-called Islamic State (IS).
