Michael McCormack rejects Liberal MPs' calls for detained Tamil family to return to Biloela

Indicating a possible shift inside government on the fate of the Murugappan family, Trent Zimmerman said that while the case was"very complicated", support for them in the Australian community was"overwhelming".Daughter of Biloela Tamil family marks her fourth birthday in hospital as a decision on their future looms

"This week or in the next couple of weeks, will be considering an application to use his powers to give an exemption to the normal requirements," Mr Zimmerman said."I think its time we brought this to an end and brought them back to the mainland.""What we don't want to see is the boats return," he said.

More than 500,000 people have signed a petition asking the federal government to allow the Murugappan family to return home to Biloela, Queensland, where they previously lived. Mr Zimmerman's comments mark a departure from senior government ministers' consistent refusal to soften their hardline stance.

Cunt

Wish it was him in Christmas island

This old, white fart is well past his use by date

😡👎

If the law has been applied correctly and it has resulted in this depravity, then the law is wrong and it must change.

Cruelty is a feature, not a byproduct. The politics of cruelty.

My recollection of his somewhat deranged interview included something like '...we have to stop the ships running into cliffs...drowning hundreds...' wish i could recall more gems.

Running a country as if it’s their private company, disregard people’s voice & opinion, on a total self destruction mode!

Has the Acting Prime minister spoken with the Prime Minister looking for a post-election job in the UK?

How can australia continue to accept CHILD abusers as politicians? McCormack is not only completely & utterly inept, he finds it acceptable to abuse CHILDREN!!! auspol australia CrimesAgainstChildren

McCormack is out of touch at the expense of this family … we must pressure him to change

Start contacting your local councils, federal members, tell them you are voting labor unless they change this decision immediately. If they don't, vote them out! Deplorable behavior.

A fence paling has more empathy than this dull freaking mammal 😡

We will not forget. Don’t underestimate Australians ScottMorrisonMP

HometoSriLanka auspol Biloela

mccormack , Elvis impersonator revealed to have a Wooden Heart auspol BackToBilo sbsnews

Another Christian I guess

Of course he does, he doesn’t have permission to make a call like that.

Disgusting example of a politician

This leader does not have a bain cell to call home

ScottMorrisonMP Are all these heartless, cruel politicians indigenous to this country? No! So how inhumane to deny a family who just want a safe, peaceful life in a country where they aren’t persecuted!!! JUST LIKE MOST OF OUR ANCESTORS!! bastards shortmemory BiloelaFamily

So sick of politicians like him pretending to care about to care about refugees lives so transparent

AlexHawkeMP HometoBilo sallyrugg Minister Sally Rugg summed it up best- when is locking up children and making them so I'll it puts their life in serious danger ever the solution to ANY problem. Ignore your so called leaders and let this family HometoBiloela CNN bbcnews

JonesHowdareyou All round nice guy 🙄

JonesHowdareyou M_McCormackMP BS Just stop the LNP fear mongering BS... IT AINT ABOUT BOATS ITS ABOUT A FAMILY .. ITS HUMAN RIGHTS ITS FREEDOM THATS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT THAT THE LNL DENIES TO THIS FAMILY. HometoBiloela

I don't understand why they aren't allowed to go home

Wonder how he feels about wasting more than a billion on robodebt? The libs are inept money managers. McCormack is their lapdog

That’s done it. Anthony Albanese will be Australia’s next Prime Minister.

And spinning the same 💩 100s of men are being released from medivac hotels. Have the flood gates opened? 1000s asylum seekers have arrived by plane, seeking refugee status, majority refused. We don't see 'plane people ' propaganda by the media and LNP.

And this is the same rotten Govt that condemn other Countries on their treatment of people. Condemn children to imprisonment, slave labour, 100s of 1000s living below the poverty line and who knows how many 1000s sleeping rough. 🤬🤬🤬

He would he's a callous nasty bastard the absolute typical LNP type. These men are destroying Aus giving Aus a bad name for cruelty . A gov that treats refugees badly will treat their own people '- badly. Be warned Australians

Never ever going to happen. They are EXAMPLES of our idiology... that prop up our society.

ElaineM11584892 So says the minister for 'alternative facts'.

Can we deport Michael McCormack back to his country of origin? It doesn’t matter if he was born here. We don’t want to encourage idiots to come to Australia HometoBiloela

I also remember Morrison trying to stop the families of those killed on the rocks at CI from attending the funerals of their loved ones. auspol Scottythefukwit ScottyNoFriends

Not his decision to “reject”

Could be fatal for MicMac if ScottyTheTraitor changes tune on return and decides that it is a great opportunity to bury MicMac under a bus 🚌

Mr McCormack just does not have any compassion nor any understanding of what this poor family have endured!

It's the only logical decision given the trivial and vexatious matter, soon to be brought before the High court.

Bring back the Barney

and this clown is my local MP. 🤯🤯

AstraKate That should reduce TheNats votes to about ZERO! HomeToBilo auspol

'What we don't want to see is the boats return'. This is a lazy, outdated and inhumane response. If you cut the rhetoric for a moment and listen, what the Australian public is telling you is that these people need to be offered the opportunity to return to Biloela. hometobilo

On the basis that, as he lives in a humane democracy where he has a great paying job and a nice warm house to go to each day, why should he make an acception to LNP policy that would create a beneficial future for two children and their parents and the community they live in?

Good I’m changing my vote to Labor if they’ll agree to return them ti Biloela

Even before I read the article, I predicted he was going to give the same tired BS reason about not wanting to see the return of refugee boats. So Border Force and Navy haven’t been managing our borders? As well as being cruel, this Government has a serious credibility issue.

Hopefully, Australia will wake up and reject you!!

ElaineM11584892 Let have every parent who children were born in Australia left in peace to make the best they can of their family life in Australia

Shame on you - Australian born kids should be in the community whilst waiting for the process. HometoBiloela

LetUsBackToAus

In a humane, united world, that many are striving for, there is no place for your particular brand of cruelty and spin M_McCormackMP We want to see them go hometobilo

ElaineM11584892 Sadistic bastard.

Time for tanya_plibersek to lead, and be voted in. Time for compassion and strength of leadership.

Under strict orders from his boss...

The_Nationals Barnaby_Joyce insisted Migrants should settle i rural areas- they integrated in HometoBiloela — Ticked every box Doesn’t give M_McCormackMP and team the right to abuse children 👶 and lock them in a ConcentrationCamp leading to sepsis!!

Cos he's a c*nt

It’s about time amnesty Refugees UN took ScottMorrisonMP and the LiberalAus to the IntlCrimCourt for what they are doing to these poor young children. It’s deplorable, it’s unconscionable, it’s vile and it’s certainly un Australian! theprojecttv cnn BBCWorld G7

Heartless!

‘I can’t be doing that! HE told me I just had to keep the chair warm! I’ll be sent to the naughty corner when HE gets back (and he’ll be grumpy!)’

It's his prerogative as a deeply stupid person to uphold the starkest examples of depravity.

Arsehole. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

FO Elvis wannabe

The village idiot allows wind to flap his tongue!

McCormack should face consequences for the harm inflicted, protecting the egos of stubborn belligerent politicians and bureaucrats.

How do we have a system of government that puts a clown like this into the Prime Ministerial Chair anyway? The treatment of these poor people has become a national shame.

Facts matter. ONE asylum seeker boat was dashed upon the cliffs at Christmas Island. He is wrong in fact and wrong in opinion.

This will be the final undoing of this Government

Utter cruel stupidity. Election please so we may rid ourselves of this corrupt, cruel government

He is utterly useless. I mean absolutely bereft of use. Contribution zero.

Good bloke 🙄🤦‍♂️ What does it mean to be Australian?

political_alert Troglodyte!

This is the essential McCormack! It takes a certain type of person to be proud of such values, and to be complicit in the disgraceful behaviour of this government. Policies do not justify cruelty to other human beings.

Same old same old, just a dangerous waste of space 🤬🤬

Why not go back to home country?

No the government prefers to spend millions of tax payers dollars to keep them isolated

Just following orders was an excuse used at Nuremberg too!

Which part of illegal don’t you understand

Now in charge of the country - a narrow minded old bigot you'd avoid at the local RSL.

Great to see the law being upheld.

I think the government should seriously rethink their decision. This beautiful family has so much love and support from their community. Might even lose the election over this. Show some compassion.

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