No change to boats policy: Dutton

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says there'll be no change to the government's stance on turning back asylum seeker boats under Malcolm Turnbull.

Nor will the leadership change have an impact on the government's hardline stance against resettlement.

"We are not going to be dictated by organised criminals," Mr Dutton told 2GB.

"We have not changed our position, we will not change our position."

Mr Dutton says his department has identified 200 people for the first intake of the 12,000 Syrian refugees to be resettled in Australia.

"We want to have as a priority women and children, families. We will be having a look at those who are most in need," he said.

"We offer a helping hand but... we are not going to be slack in relation to the screening of people."

Mr Dutton was one of the few ministers under Tony Abbott's reign to retain his portfolio in Mr Turnbull's cabinet reshuffle announced this week.