Priya Nadesalingam to share Biloela family's story in book

In 2018, the Tamil family was removed from the small central Queensland town they had made their home after fleeing Sri Lanka.

Priya Nadesalingam will be working on her memoir with journalist Rebekah Holt, who has been covering the Biloela family's story for years.They will also be working with a Tamil journalist and author, who will help with translation and providing background and cultural context. "A book gives us the opportunity for her to tell her story, and I can do the other bits around explaining what was going on legally and politically at the same time, so it's an opportunity to pull all of that together."The memoir is scheduled to be published by Allen & Unwin in late 2023.Priya is a Tamil asylum seeker who fled Sri Lanka in 2001 due to war and her family being targeted.

While the family spent the next few years in detention centres, the Biloela community and numerous social justice advocacy groupswith more than 190,000 Australians signing a petition urging then-Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to return the family to Biloela.

Honestly why keep pushing this on Aussies , u will end up like ABC ( Aboriginal broadcasting) no one listens or watches anymore , 8% , many on the street have complained about SBS pushing unpopular issues , even turned it off at our club like ABC

Watch Coalition lawyers go nuts to stop it. Citing how bad it might be on the FORMER government and ongoing International issues.

HomeandAway See pinned & media section '19 dead passport impounded' indigenous 🇬🇧 journalist with a Black wife banned by the UK govt from working driving travel & benefits since 2005. UN CIJ_ICJ

German citizens of Jewish ancestry went through less fleeing Germany to Australia!

Didn't take long for the money grab to start. Am sure it will be an unbiased account though.

Book on how to break the law and get away with it.

If the book is a success I can see a movie deal on the horizon.

A book deal as well? Ah, Australia, the lucky country

How to come to Australia illegally and play the system by having kids.

Lol, the cash-in.

Isn’t it great how the labor party could fulfill an election campaign promise and give this family residency, allowing all those advocates to pretend they made meaningful change, then proceed to deport thousands more

I hope she makes millions. Definitely buying a copy. I hope some day the Australian govt are held to account.

Didn't happen when they were Whitefella boat people escaping the shitholes of German Europe. They were welcomed by the White European community of Australian citizens!

Isn’t amazing how liberals call western world’s racist but yet illegal immigrants all over the world flee for a good life in western country’s , go figure hey 🤣🇦🇺🇦🇺

The treatment of the family by the then Australian Government was inhumane. I am glad they are being looked after now.

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