Canberra to accept 12,000 additional refugees from Syria, Iraq: Abbott

‘Australia will take an extra 12,000 asylum seekers displaced due to the crisis in the Middle East, says the country’s prime minister.

“Australia will resettle an additional 12,000 refugees from the Syria/Iraq conflict,” Tony Abbott told reporters in the Australian capital, Canberra, on Wednesday.

The figure would be on top of the existing 13,750 refugees accepted this year.’

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