‘Full responsibility’: Michaelia Cash challenges Labor on security after repatriation of families from Syria

Government says process was informed by national security advice, individual assessments and detailed work by security agencies

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The Albanese government must assume full responsibility" if there is any risk to Australians from repatriating women and children from Syrian camps after the fall of Islamic State, Michaelia Cash has warned.

The former attorney general made the remarks following the return of four Australian women and 13 children to Sydney on Saturday.

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