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Amman: "A new life in Australia. That's my dream.
"Syria, no. That's enough of Syria." 
Marwan Alkhdah had his eyes fixed on the future on Tuesday.
In his hands were the refugee visas granting him, his wife Shereen Mneer Al Asaf, and their five children aged 10, 9, 6, 1 and just 8 months a new life in Australia.
Four years ago he left Daraa in Syria's south for Amman, across the border in Jordan. At that time the Syrian regime was detaining people, torturing them, he said.
He felt threatened, and he was worried for his family.
Since then the situation has only become worse. There is no prospect of his returning home, perhaps for many years.
Daraa is in the hands of the Free Syrian Army and the town and its surrounding villages are bombarded by the regime's barrel bombs, a Jordanian army general told Fairfax on Monday - indiscriminately hitting military and civilian targets.
Tens of thousands of those from Mr Alkhdah's former city have struggled to the nearby Jordanian border, injured or maimed, seeking asylum.
And now the city is also reportedly the target of Russian air strikes.
Mr Alkdah said life in Amman was "not bad". But many refugees politely underplay the conditions in Jordan, reluctant to offend the hosts who took them in.
Charities and other refugee groups told Fairfax that conditions for many Syrian refugees in Jordan were bad and getting worse, with families running out of money to buy food, pay rent, obtain necessary medicine or even for pregnant women to get vital pre-natal checkups.
Children find it hard to get school places and parents worry about their future. Mr Alkdah is one of them.
"We are looking for something better," he said. "To live in a safe place, be happy and to educate my kids."
He and his family were among the first to be granted visas under Australia's temporarily-expanded resettlement program. They now have the right to permanently live in Australia, to send their children to school, to work.
Mr Alkdah is a mechanic, fond of superbikes and was excited to hear of the motorcycle racing at Phillip Island (his children are more excited by the idea of seeing a kangaroo).
He is yet to find out where he will live, in a country many times further away than he has ever travelled.
But he is grateful to Australia for giving him the chance to come there.
"All the respect. All the respect to Australia. Thank you again."
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