Jack Darmo and his wife Ilham Malmouk are enjoying the simple things in life, like picking up the groceries. It's a welcome change after escaping the nightmare of IS in Syria.
However the conflict in Syria remains fresh in their minds - they fled and resettled in Sydney just three months ago.
Jack said he was a successful oil engineer in Al-Hasakah, in north-eastern Syria, before he heard that IS was after his services.
“We [were] afraid about our lives because they [were] looking after us,” Jack explains.
“They know about us and I hear everyone working in a big company, they take him (in)."
As a result Jack and Ilham were forced to leave the Middle East and the world they knew behind.
They were granted a humanitarian visa to join family already living in Australia.
Ilham told SBS she felt an overwhelming weight off her shoulders in the move.
“The first thing I thought was peace and stability,” she said.
“I felt overwhelming joy when I first arrived here."
Jack says he is nothing but thankful for the opportunity to start a new life away from the crisis engulfing Syria.
"I give thank for the government of Australia to bring us here,” he said.
“We are happy to have all our cousins to live with us here."
Pamela Curr from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre said the Abbott Government should be doing more to help others like Jack and Ilham.
"Australia needs to take a sizeable number of people,” Ms Curr said.
“It has been put forward that we could cope with 20,000 Syrian refugees - and we could, we could indeed."
The former Australian ambassador to Syria, Dr Bob Bowker, agrees.
"I believe if we are careful in going about the selection process we could gain a great deal,” he said.
“We are at risk of a whole generation of Syrians being lost."
Pamela Curr says Syrian refugees would be a good fit for Australian society.
"The Syrians will be very easy. Most of them are educated people who come from a society, a modern society with qualifications," she explained.
Jack and Ilham are studying English before looking for work, and Jack says he's in Australia to prove his worth.
“I come in here to work. If I don’t work I can’t grow. I want to grow,” he said.
