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conix, Nadesalingam family feel ‘peace’ after being granted permanent residency in Australia

In Biloela, Priya Nadesalingam says ‘I know my daughters will get to
grow up safely in Australia. Now my husband and I can live without fear’


The Nadesalingam family were told they were granted permanent residency during a meeting with immigration officials at their Biloela home on Friday. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Eden Gillespie
Fri 5 Aug 2022 03.21 EDT
Last modified on Fri 5 Aug 2022 04.16 EDT

The Nadesalingam family have said they finally feel “peace” after the federal immigration minister, Andrew Giles, intervened to grant them permanent residency.

Priya and Nades Nadesalingam, along with their daughters Kopika, 7, and Tharnicaa, 5, were visited by government officials in their family home in Biloela on Friday afternoon and told the news.

Priya said it was a “very happy day” for the Tamil asylum seeker family and for all of their friends and supporters in Biloela.

“At last we feel peace,” Priya said in a statement. “I am so grateful to minister Giles for granting us this permanency.

“Now I know my daughters will get to grow up safely in Australia. Now my husband and I can live without fear.”

We pretend there has been change under Labor but hundreds of refugees are still in detention
Behrouz Boochani
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/27/we-pretend-there-has-been-change-under-labor-but-hundreds-of-refugees-are-still-in-detention

In March 2018, the family were given 10 minutes to pack before being removed from their home by border force agents in a 5am raid.

They were then moved to immigration detention in Melbourne before the government attempted to deport the family to Sri Lanka in 2019.

The deportation attempt was halted by a last-minute court injunction – their plane was stopped in Darwin and they were moved to the detention centre on Christmas Island where they spent two years.

This year, the Biloela family were given hope after the Labor government won the federal election and moved swiftly to grant the family with bridging visas in June.

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conix, Why be a knob-headed nuisance. You know i have posted many articles (more critical than not) on Australian immigration policy. And you know you have shown minimum, if any, interest in any of them.

Since you don't contribute to the site as others do, a very few here for you of many more on the board. And, of course, many others on each side of most each and every one below, too. This effort more for my own benefit than yours, because i know you have never shown you really cared for much of anything other than scoring political points on this board. Anyway:

Abbott is a guy undoubtedly you would have voted for if you had had the chance to, 2013 - The polishing of Tony Abbott
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=90898728

2019 - Refugees pick Nauru over US
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=146718492

Australia Detained People On Islands For Years. Now It Wants To Ban Them From Ever Visiting.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=150767164

Some personal comment here: 2014 - Australia and you: Labor needs to rethink asylum seeker policy
.. we are all complicit in the world refugee problem .. all countries have been/are beset by the politically and socially divisive question of how to treat those who seek safety from physical, or economic, or social stress and/or danger in other countries .. all refugees are all of ours .. yep, the USA sees far greater numbers than Australia, yet other countries share many more .. Turkey, Lebanon, Greece for three (guessing, not checked, anyway it's not that important .. :)) .. questions around those in Australia have much if not all overlap with debate in the USA, so content of debate here is similar to content of debate there .. aside: you guys, i think, now in this area rate higher on the humanity scale than Australia does .. it hurts, but truth does sometimes .. i know y'all will see parallels, so i hope you will find this Australian stuff interesting, and useful, too .. grin ..
A new year should see Labor take some moral leadership on the treatment of refugees.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=103994064

Immigration detention inquiry: Government tried to cover up asylum seekers' mental health problems, inquiry told
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=105150614

Australian-born baby denied refugee protection visa
[...]
So, on the face of it, it seems Yemen treats all boat refugees more in accordance to international commitments than Australia does.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=107321628

As stated above you have only infrequently, if ever, expressed any interest Australian policies. Except to take a juvenile niggle at me, of course, as you have done twice just now. A number of others have. One here
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=92120644 .

This not immigration, but involves detention which you have always been attracted to - F6 .. Mandatory detention laws in Australia 2011 ..
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67602264

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Once again many of us believe that what threatens America are conservatives who do not care about elections where all Americans can vote, where we can work and go to school without some person being able to buy an AR-15 weapon and kills you. We also would like conservatives to quit trying to erase the history of America because why should anyone care about injustices of the past. Maybe we also care about the climate, our water supplies, and air. Caring about immigration, yes we need them, it is what makes America truly the land of the free.