The Latest Breaking News from Nadesalingam

The Tamil “Biloela” family has been granted permanent residency by the Albanese government.

After taking happy snaps in Biloela the new government has made no effort to change Australia’s cruel immigration policy on refugees arriving by boat

The family have returned to the town they were taken from in an early morning raid four years ago, with hopes of changing the system for others

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It should not have taken four years of campaigning, community vigils and online petitions to achieve a fair, transparent and reasonable process

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The Nadesalingam family became the public face of Australia's strict stance on boat arrivals when they were removed from their home in central Queensland and placed in immigration detention in 2018. They are finally set to return to Biloela today. Here is how their saga unfolded.

After a decade in detention, an Iranian refugee family dares to dream of the possibility of resettlement