The final day of the G7-plus summit has seen leaders agree to "accelerate" the end of coal for electrical power, and calls for the government to release the long-detained Biloela family have increased.
A decision on the future of Biloela s Murugappan family will be handed down in a couple of days, after they have been waiting in limbo in detention for about three years. The Tamil family, who face persecution if they return to Sri Lanka, will learn their future situation soon when Immigration Minister Alex Hawke officially hands down his decision, which could be as early as Tuesday. The Australian reports the odds are favourable towards the family being returned to the Australian mainland. According to the Home to Bilo campaign s Twitter, the family being reunited in Perth is also in the works.
Good news everyone! According to a government source via the
Sydney Morning Herald, the Biloela family currently detained on Christmas Island will likely be released within days.
Earlier today, a source told the publication that Immigration Minister
Alex Hawke is expected to make an announcement regarding the government’s decision on whether to intervene in the Morguppan family’s bid to remain in Australia.
Priya and
Nadelsalingam Muruguppan fled Sri Lanka and came by boat to Australia seeking asylum in 2012 and 2013, after fears of being persecuted by Sri Lankan authorities for their ethnic Tamil identity during a civil war.
Since then, they have been living in Biloela and applying for asylum claims, were rejected twice, and then detained on Christmas Island in 2019, along with their Australian-born daughters,
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