Syrian refugee crisis likely to get worse: Peter Dutton

By David Wroe, National Security Correspondent
Updated November 29 2015 - 1:13pm, first published 12:18pm
Bleak assessment: Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.  Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Bleak assessment: Immigration Minister Peter Dutton. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says the Syrian refugee crisis will likely "get worse before it gets better", signalling a pessimistic assessment of global efforts to find a political circuit-breaker for the war-torn nation.