The education minister says this year’s Naplan results are a tribute to the ‘incredible work’ of teachers and students during the pandemic. Follow the day’s news live
‘The whole thing has been terribly handled’: Andrews
Andrews raised concerns about the level of detail that was put out about the repatriation mission in the media before it occurred. Andrews says the announcement that the four women and 13 children have arrived endangers any future repatriation of the women and children who have yet to be brought back.
The next issue now is we’ve had the minister of home affairs come out and say that these four women and their 13 children have arrived. Reporting indicates that there are many others that are still in camps in Syria.
So it raises the issue of what is going to happen to those women, when and if will they be bought to Australia? And does this not heighten the risk for a future mission when it’s known that there will be others that are likely to be carried out? So the whole thing has been terribly handled.
The potential there was for those children to have been radicalised and to continue to be radicalised when they came back to Australia.
It’s not inconsistent at all … these children were orphans and that was the rationale behind bringing them back to Australia at that point in time and having to manage those risks.
Continue reading…The education minister says this year’s Naplan results are a tribute to the ‘incredible work’ of teachers and students during the pandemic. Follow the day’s news live‘The whole thing has been terribly handled’: AndrewsAndrews raised concerns about the level of detail that was put out about the repatriation mission in the media before it occurred. Andrews says the announcement that the four women and 13 children have arrived endangers any future repatriation of the women and children who have yet to be brought back.The next issue now is we’ve had the minister of home affairs come out and say that these four women and their 13 children have arrived. Reporting indicates that there are many others that are still in camps in Syria. So it raises the issue of what is going to happen to those women, when and if will they be bought to Australia? And does this not heighten the risk for a future mission when it’s known that there will be others that are likely to be carried out? So the whole thing has been terribly handled.The potential there was for those children to have been radicalised and to continue to be radicalised when they came back to Australia.It’s not inconsistent at all … these children were orphans and that was the rationale behind bringing them back to Australia at that point in time and having to manage those risks. Continue reading…