PM pledges terror, economic action

Australia is taking action to remove the Australian citizenship of dual nationals suspected of terrorism and a bill is to be introduced to parliament to make encouragement of genocide a crime.

Bishop said she had also spoken with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Berlin and updated him on information from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and from the Australian embassy in Paris.

But, Dutton has been forced to rejects calls by NSW Nationals MP Andrew Fraser to close Australia’s borders to Middle Eastern refugees.

Attorney General George Brandis said everything that could be done to keep Australia safe was being done.

He said the “worst thing” Australia could do was to isolate the Muslim community.

AUSTRALIA, Canada and Japan were blocked from attending a diplomatic summit in Vienna last week which laid the groundwork for a possible future UN Security Council resolution, ceasefire and transition government in Syria.

“We are already performing well above our weight when it comes to our involvement in Iraq”. Mr Dutton moved to reassure Australians that the safety checks on the 12,000 additional refugees coming from Syria & Iraq wouldn’t be rushed & in that the authorities wouldn’t compromise on safety checks for the incoming refugees.

The first of the Australia-bound refugees – a family of five – is due to arrive in the next 24 hours.

The groups said that G20 leaders should resettle refugees, support global institutions on job creation for them, increase funding for their needs and for social protection programs in host countries and invest in basic social services, including education and health. “At this stage we do not intend to change the threat level”, she said.

The G20 leaders are expected to pledge to work more closely on intelligence and airport security, as well as countering online propaganda, stopping terrorist financing and the flow of foreign fighters.

More than 150 are understood to have died in multiple terror attacks across Paris.

The French Ambassador to Australia Christophe Lecourtier formally opened the embassy’s condolence book during a ceremony in Canberra on Monday.

Mr Lecourtier said it was a “cowardly attack”.

“There is sadness and there is anger but I can assure you that we shall never surrender to terrorism”.

“It’s a war. Not a war of civilisation but a war for civilisation”.

Speaking to reporters, Mr Lecourtier said the bombings of Syria were only the start of France’s response to the attacks.

“We have to recognise that the resources, the strength of our states, of our nations, are so much greater than those of the terrorists”.