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by Krishani Dhanji
Australia politics live: Quad countries ink deal to build surveillance network and Fiji port to counter China

Australia’s foreign affairs minister Penny Wong met with US secretary of state Marco Rubio in New Delhi meeting. Follow today’s news live

‘Are we safer with them here?’ Minister grilled on return of Syrian women and children

Housing minister Clare O’Neil is being grilled on the security arrangements surrounding the women and children who returned from a Syrian detention camp to Australia last night.

We are working with national security agencies on this. This is a difficult issue and a long running issue for the country. We are lucky to have some of the best national security agencies in the world supporting us here in Australia, and they will be monitoring this situation extremely closely.

And we do trust them to support the country to be safe.

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This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Krishani Dhanji.

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