Mayors say they oppose repatriation of IS families

Three Sydney mayors will meet with Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil to voice their opposition to the repatriation of Australian wives and children of Islamist State fighters in the city’s southwest. Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun says the resettlement of the families in western Sydney could involve retraumatising recently arrived refugees such as Yazidis and Assyrians fleeing IS violence from Iraq and Syria. ‘‘You would not put a victim of a crime next to the perpetrator or the person who is an accessory to the perpetrator,’’ Mannoun said.