“Every time we’ve been speaking to Priya we can hear her crying in the background, asking for Kopika and papa, so she is not in a happy state,” she said. Priya has said she had repeatedly tried to raise the alarm about the severity of her daughter’s condition in the lead up to her evacuation, but was only offered Panadol and Nurofen.The Department of Home Affairs has strongly denied any allegations of inaction or mistreatment towards people in their care.
“As soon as the Australian Border Force was advised by the treating medical practitioners that the minor required medical treatment in Western Australia, the minor was transferred to a hospital in Western Australia,” they said. Prime Minister Scott Morrison weighed in on the issue on Tuesday, stating medical professionals would determine where and what medical care Tharnicaa received.
Meanwhile, supporters are planning to gather outside the hospital where Tharnicaa and Priya are staying for a candlelight vigil on Wednesday.“We know she probably not be able to see it from the window, but the hope is Tharnicaa can see all the twinkling lights and know that she is not alone,” Ms Fredericks said. The family have been in immigration detention for more than three years.
A protracted legal battle to secure the family's right to remain in Australia currently hinges on whether the three-year-old has the right to apply for protection.
This is stupid. Let them stay in Australia. These are honest people with a support network in the community where they were living. The government has seriously lost the plot of what a compassionate nation is all about.
Copy and paste Biloela Tamil family pics to your profile until this cruel Government is forced by us, the people of Australia, to bring them home ScottMorrisonMP
First they weren't looking into resetting them now they are all because they look bad. No morals
I am a Sri Lankan. Stop facilitating this gross shit Australia sbsnews
Sad story .
It’s a better plan to keep the family here given the huge amounts spent trying to keep them out. Our govts are extremely counter productive
I bet they’ll appreciate being sent to the US and maybe even make the Aussies jealous given most Aussies would love to settle in the US and can’t
Even if those conservatives don't agree it's a waste of tax payers money. As for those saying send them back to Sri Lanka. I have heard that in SL they are removing Tamil signs and replacing them with Mandarin. Not sure how accurare this is but interesting.....
Lies, Lies , Lies. Their lawyer know nothing about it. I will only believe it when their lawyer makes a statement.
Keep them here! They've spent over $6Million keeping this family in detention EvilGovernment
karenandrewsmp ScottMorrisonMP you are sick and inhumane
Carltontowin The bull shit word salad says it all about Morrison.
How much money is that going to cost the Australian tax payer? Just let them settle in Australia, this government is seriously defective!!
Nope. They've done no such thing. Just another cover story. Send them HometoBiloela hometobilo auspoI
A reminder of who this Government accepted and protected.
Let’s be honest, now that Tharunicaa is seriously ill, Morrison wants to settle them to stop the bad press. The man has no conscience unless it benefits him. Locking children in detention is a national disgrace as is indefinite detention.
How incredibly generous. The lack of empathy by the Australian federal government is astounding.
At a time where Government should be reflecting on the mistreatment of a 4 yr old girl, they think it's appropriate to be telling us where they're going to send her, if & when she feels better auspol ScottytheChildAbuser ScottytheMonster LNPTortureParty bilb
But they have yet to actually bring this up with either country.
Why?
But Australia is closer and there is a community to support them
what about aussis overseas and in australia who cannot visit their families and they are really stressed?
Bless this little child and her family. Protect them from the LNP
tanyadendrinos Why can’t they be resettled here? Have we run out of room, houses or something?
What the heck Australia? Question is why can’t they stay in Australia? It’s not like these people are asking for a life of luxury - just to live a quiet family life in Biloela - A town supporting their return. Haven’t we put them through enough? empathy AsylumSeekers biloela
Just send them home to QLD.
Rubbish response - hard working family- children Australian born - arrogance nasty vindictive and childish must win at any cost by an LnP gov - election coming talk up tough - defence and war
I just don't understand why they can't stay
Key is ScottMorrisonMP and karenandrewsmp and the Ministers before here enabled Neglect of these children due to their cruelty Australia 🇦🇺 can do better with strong borders Sadly our religious leaders turning a blind eye -Makes them as complicit!
Why? The children are Australian born. It is not illegal to be born in Australia. It is not illegal to seek assylum. It is illegal to deport an Australian to another country. LindaReynolds has no credubuty when it comes to the law.
melaniedoak If this family is 'exported' to an alternative country, instead of being returned to Biloela, it will be to the everlasting shame of this nation and a reflection on the vile, racist, political class that rules us; a leprous wound that will never heal.
I think people smugglers have got the message that Australia is governed by intransigent callous psychopaths. Time to release this poor family from the prolonged torture. If not for the humanity - but that’s a good reason - do it because of the cost ScottMorrisonMP hometobilo
This isn’t resettling!!! This is cruel DEPORTATION - further emotional and mental trauma for these little girls. GIVE THEM A HOME hometobilo HometoBiloela
This looks familiar, just a reminder Australia, you have a very bad track record
Here’s an idea - settle them in Biloela. Or are they too dangerous?
Or they could settle them in the place they know as home with the people they know as friends. What a pack of pricks our government is!
Or here’s a better idea: send them home to Biloela. Our Federal Govt are breathtakingly cruel and petty
Our shame
I really hope they are settled here. Being resettled in another country would be extremely stressful and they don’t need that. If they were settled elsewhere then NZ is by far the best. However I don’t understand the governments stubbornness. Let them stay.
Yet they are not
Seriously!
No! They should be allowed to stay!
So generous of 'our' government. 🤬
When it comes down to cases such as this... Our current Gov are cruel undeserving inhuman bastards.
Whats wrong with Australia ? Send Morrison to the states or NZ .
This is crap politics. Bring them home to Biloela. They have friends and community. We’ve tortured them enough
This so wrong. Let them go home, they are missed and wanted in Biloela
This is so wrong but not unexpected from a cruel, heartless inhuman government like this.
ScottMorrisonMP Please release this family. Aside from the barbaric treatment & human rights atrocity playing out before us, they fled SL seeking asylum. They moved to a country region where we need pop growth, assimilated and have become an integral part of the community...
$30000 a day spent to keep that hole open...why can’t they just come back to Oz and we close that place down and save some freaking money?
Let them go back home to Biloela! They had lives there before being ripped from them! If not there, then please let it be New Zealand!
What solution is that This family has proven that they were part of a great community in Australia both worked hard and didn’t take advantage of they system yet the govt is acting like they will wrought the system if given a visa 🙄🙄🙄
Australia is Tharnicaa and Kopika’s home .... HometoBiloela
Seriously! Dutton and ScoMo has serious vendetta against this family! Just let them go back to where they have adopted as home Biloela, and be over with it! What’s with the vengeful act that they seem they cannot let go off!!! 😡😡😡
We kicking the kiwis out of Australia and nkw we want them to take our problem? Why not just send them back to thier country of origin STOP wasting tax payers money, clearly this government is incapable of running a country.
ScottyTheChosenOne ScottytheChildAbuser looking to two of Australia’s closest allies to settle the family because they’re not good enough for LNP? How different are their refugee criteria to Australia’s? I rather think it’s near identical. So why not settle them here?
How much lower can our country sink?
Send them to New Zealand please. These are pretenders from Sri Lanka. Ask Queenslanders to house themsbsnewsstupisqueenslanders
More BS! from this Morrison led corrupt LNPGovt ...the family's lawyers have heard nothing about this! HometoBiloela
Thank goodness for New Zealand.
The last venemous strike that zmorridon can inflict on this family. Even under great pressure to be Christian, he takes every opportunity to hurt as much as he can:after all this time, stop them going home.pitiful and vengeful
Lorraine451 I would love to resettle the LNP Federal Government offshore!
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I guess America, with all the guns, would be safer for them than the Morrison govt.
Scottyfrommarketing - Compassion is a powerful form of leadership. You should try it. You just might feel good and have a country feel good as well!
Seriously sick liberal government.
At what cost?
Interestingly these options haven't even been discussed with the family's lawyers.
I didn’t realise Australia was full
Biloela is awaiting them with open arms. For once in their lives can the LNP do something sensible
Sure. 🙄 A bit of media fodder to quell the uprising. The poor family will be lucky to get out of there by 2025 going by the pace that this useless Gov't sets. auspol hometobilo
FFS THEY ALREADY HAVE A HOME HERE IN AUS 🤬
Tharunicaa won’t have health insurance for pre-existing health issues in USA. jacindaardern please accept the Biloela Familyinti New Zealand. They have suffered too long
SteveRezdo HometoBiloela HometoBiloela 3yrs of detention for the family... CRIMINAL CHARGES SHOULD BE MADE AGAINST THIS GOVERVMENT.
Of course they are -the cruelty and spite fullness is unbelievable
This comes back to Peter Dutton. He who wants to be Prime Minister. Let family stay it clearly demonstrates the mongrel decisions being made
The federal govt minister could return the family to Biloela which is where they are wanted and where they want to be.
So why can other countries recognise them as legitimate refugees but we don’t?
Beggars believe. They are wanted here in Australia. The PM does not realise that if they are welcomed by his party it would increase goodwill towards him and his party. Totally incapable of compassion and common sense.
MSMWatchdog2013 That's ridiculous and a cop out.
Here’s a novel idea…let them go home - to Biloela! Fuck me dead the ScottMorrisonMP government are a bunch of sociopathic ninny’s that would not know the first thing about empathy. HometoBiloela
How bloody cruel can you get!
These girls are Australian… end of story… send them hometobilo
Weak
SBS Why not leave them where they were in Australia 🙄
What are we?
Are they criminals? What can’t they settle here? Lack of humanity.
But we want them here!
Disgusting conduct of those in power
The cruel & unconscionable LNP behaviour, keeping this family in detention for years, is not about refugee policy, nor about this family. It is about saving face for Morrison and Dutton, both of whom think that this makes them look strong! This family is collateral damage.
Why not 'settle' them at home in biloela
xskinn FFS just let them go back to Biloela.
How about Biloela you soulless pricks ScottMorrisonMP karenandrewsmp
secomb_michael HOPE this family will eventually call NZ home. I HOPE Nades finds employment. I HOPE Pryia has a home she can tend, cooking family favourites with kind neighbours but mostly I HOPE both Kopika n Tharunicaa love school, make lots of friends n have numerous birthday parties. HOPE❗
reggietas Anything for the government to try and move them out of the eyes of the Australian public and the media spotlight. Just because the government can't admit their own failed policy and prejudice within their own party.
The cruelty is the point.
How truely despicable. Anything to make their incarceration a little crueler. LNPTortureParty
SBS You are a democratically elected government, listen to your public ScottMorrisonMP Keep them home here where they belong hometobilo MarisePayne I'm astounded humans can be this disgusting and vile
only to the media the family and their legal team have heard nothing about resettlement options being explored you guys need to learn to fact check stuff that comes out of trumpesque administrations
Wow! Millions just to keep them! Sure lots of Aussies wld be so jealous for these millions of attention, hurray to Biloelas' and the rest! Hope all are deserving again on these millions of taxpayers money!Oh, plse!!!
SBS Just stop already, ENOUGH, this is their home. They worked, paid taxes, their children are Australians. And at a time like this how can you even suggest they relocate to the US, how will they get medical care then? HEARTLESS f-ing government
How long will that take to organise? On manus the men waited 2 years to hear if USA world accept them. Will the biloela family remain locked up for that time? And will they get assessed first by USA and then by NZ therefore doubling the wait? KarenAndrewsMP thought bubble.
Only for France Nannies that make dutton richer
SBS Oh FFS, just settle them here already, this is their bloody home. How heartless can one government be
Of course they are because for them to settle here would require a few LNP pollies to back down and that ain't about to happen. Bloody disgraceful ego driven, them and us, waste of public money, politics.
Cowards way out by Government! Just admit you got this wrong.
They were law abiding, tax paying, loved members of the Biloela community. 'Kidnapped' in the middle of the night & put in indefinite detention for nothing more than political ideology. They gave Au Pair's & convicted drug king pins (William Bethan) visas.
Does anyone have any information on what this family has been alleged to have done wrong?.
LeipzigSyd We'll gladly take such a resilient family over here MonsterMorrison
Is it true or just more talk? They have suffered enough. We have to be the voice of humanity and speak for them. I do not want little children treated like this. There is no need. It is wrong. They need to come home. This isn’t news or politics. It is a little girl’s life.
This is a disgusting violation of human rights. The Australian government should be sued for torturing these children and this family who were loved by their community. NotInMyName
Her name is Tharnicaa Murugappan, and she was born in Australia. HomeToBiloela
Who not Biloela?
The only place they should be resettled is back to their home and community in Biloela.
How can they resettle an Australian citizen against her will?
Or we can bring them home where they belong HometoBiloela
No! BackToBiloNow
Why? Just why?
You would think that after the Christchurch mosque massacre, NZ wouldn't be too keen on taking in a guy who held leadership positions in a proscribed terrorist organisation that carried out far worse mosque massacres.
Why? They should be able to back to the community where they were living and had already made a life there. I'm so sick of this government, feeble minded idiots who don't care about the people they should be protecting.
At the end of the day, NZ has shown itself to be a much more compassionate place than here. Hopefully that works for them. As for the US? Get knotted. What a terrible idea to send POC somewhere that puts them at a lifetime risk of harm.
The US (?) great as if they haven’t been through enough. FFS keep them here & stop being an ass about it.
The govt haven't 'revealed' anything. They are just making stuff up to placate the public's obvious concern over a sick little girl. These grubs have no shame.
Biloela is where they belong.
Resettling the family to a another country is so cruel and unnecessary I am beyond ashamed. This cannot happen. Surely. How low can this government go.
Send the hometobilo
LetThemStay hometobilo
How do I go about renouncing my Australian citizenship?
WTF do they need to go NZ or USA. They have a home in Australia
What a slip up from Morrison Gov. 🤦🏻♂️
JaneAlcorn These Australian children belong in Australia, along with their devoted and caring parents. HometoBiloela How I wish all communities were as accepting, and amazing, as what the Biloela community is. They are real Australians.
What is the matter with you ScottMorrisonMP they are a family why USA or NZ? I think you have put them through enough. Heartless!
This just adds to the cruelty. Let’s dump them in another country without support. Out of sight out of mind. LET THEM HOME TO BILOELA. It won’t open the floodgates. It won’t cost the government money. hometobilo
The US? You monsters. I wouldn't send my worst enemy to the US.
What a shameful and embarrassing episode caused by Australia’s shameful and embarrassing immigration policies.
tanyadendrinos I bet they will now do anything to get away from the torturing, heartless, cruel cesspit that Morrison now lords it over. Australia 2021 has little to be proud of.
Whats wrong with Biloela?
The inhumanity of this government & their pseudo Christian policies are beyond the pale. They were contributing members of their community & for purely political race baiting gutter politics have been locked up for three years costing millions. karenandrewsmp ScottMorrisonMP
This family has spent years imprisoned for daring to flee persecution, harm and possible death. How on earth is that inviting to anyone? If they don’t let them go hometobilo then Australia is an inhumane country HometoBiloela LNPMongrels
They were very much loved in their home in Biloela! So HometoBiloela would be the best place.
They could be resettled in sri Lanka.
Something needed to be done long ago!!!! The mental scars will be with them where ever they settle Incredibly! cruel Government decision making
I guess the lesson learnt is apply for residency through the correct channels and all this would not have happened?
Disgraceful
SBS Is there any hope left? I don’t think the Government values family anymore! I have been kept separated from my fiancée for 457 days, her PMV300 visa granted 8 months after border closures is basically useless! makePMV300exempt
SBS karenandrewsmp just let them go home. You've tortured them enough.
It'll be the USA, then. If they became Kiwi citizens, they'd be able to return to Australia w/o a visa at any given time and live here permanently. That'd embarrass those a-holes in Canberra.
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Federal Government collectively sold their souls when they decided to persecute this poor family.
FFS
Why?! Why can they not live here? I genuinely need this explained to me bc nothing makes sense. Why should the US or NZ say yes to our responsibility? I would think we have more space & more resources, in any case. And how much would it cost us to ‘resettle’ them?
That is the most stupid idea I have ever heard.
Another form of torture for the family to be resettled away from friends and Community to start again. I hope it is NZ as I know Jacinda will welcome them with open arms.
ScottytheChildAbuser hometobilo LNPTortureParty LNPDisgrace
And why not Australia? Because we are governed by a fuvking preschooler class!
Resettlement in New Zealand and then like all New Zealand citizens they will be able to come to Australia and return to their HOME in Queensland if they choose to!
A family of 4 strikes terror in the hearts of the LNP so they want to fob off responsibility. Responsible for nothing and no one . When ScottMorrisonMP appears before his God and is asked what did you done in life to help others ..he can show him his trophy Auspol
Why? 2 of them are Australians by birth. That’s not resettlement that’s deportation.
They should be settled in this country. USA is the worst place they could be settled in - its a third world country with a deplorable health system if you aren’t wealthy
tough stand will get votes and politicians know that
This government has lost its humanity MonsterMorrison MorrisontheMonster
Why can't they go back to Biloela?
oh ffs. just stop
ScottMorrisonMP Just let the family return to Biloela and live in peace
gramazzy4 Why not here?! Makes no sense
That's not an acceptable outcome. After establishing themselves in the community of Biloela over several years, with a support network & employment, then imprisonment for 3 years, sending them away is further cruelty HometoBiloela
Please email the minister to urge for action!
This government is prepared to go to irrational lengths to show its cruelty.
MonsterMorrison KarenAndrewsMP ScottytheChildAbuser ScottyFromDamageControl LNPCrimeFamily disgusting. The talking points roll off their tongues like slime from a slug.
Why when the children were born HERE
Let just deport the children of the politicians. Send them to Christmas Island. As there forefathers were boat people.
Resettling Australian born children, what hideous people our Government is
The LNP is just plain heartless and cruel. bringthemhome BiloelaFamily MonsterMorrison
The Federal Government are a disgrace
This is ridiculous, if you want to send them to another country rather than their country of origin, it clearly shows they are genuine refugees. Keep them here, where they were already settled. I can’t understand why the government hates this family.
These little sweethearts are Aussies. Get your F*&**%$ act together Government. You are responsible for this. You dont believe you are, BUT YOU ARE.
Australia is their home. Resettling them is the govt's attempt to 'get rid of a guilty problem'. The cruelty is abhorrent! If New Zealand takes them, they will be treated with a humanity the Liberal govt is incapable of but they will forever know who denied them of their home.
RaziaShaik1 LNP keeps highlighting we need more people/works in country regions, so they implement and support a people export policy...what a team.
Asher_Wolf The United States is more compassionate than Australia... bloody hell!
Andrews and Payne doing the dirty work? The Coalition certainly picks women from the heartless sector for its Ministers.
FFS! Settle them in AUSTRALIA karenandrewsmp - what are you so scared of? The tax they might pay? The contributions to society they might make? The fact that a simple move like that might make YOU look like a human? What dirt does Dutton have on you? Do it you coward!
Jesus fucking Christ. Just settle them here...THEIR HOME. Why is the government making this harder than it should be?
And shy not here in Australia?!!!!
They want to h8de the Liberal self inflicted headache auspol LiarFromTheShire ScottyfromMarketing
They have a home here in this country.
It should be HometoBiloela
Have to stoke the fear and hatred to a sick 3 year old, that's Morrison's sin qua non.
Even if they should have gone back, now being such a famous and well recognised family, surely they are now at a much much greater risk of persecution if they return?
New Zealand would be the better of the two if they have to be forced to go - at least is is not run by the heartless LNPTortureParty. They would be marginalised in the US. But why not LetThemStay - all this hullabaloo just because MonsterMorrison's ego won't allow relenting
Include Sri Lanka too
Ffs the amount of money this government has wasted trying to kick this poor family out , we could have relocated them to a mansion in Vaucluse all expenses paid the rest of their lives and it would’ve been more cost effective 🖕Morrison 🖕Dutton 🖕LNP
Morrison govt is bizarre if the family now is resettled in New Zealand will that be classed as deportation?
Hurry up.
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