Essay: Home to Bilo…at last?
While MEREDITH WRIGHT, of Baptist World Aid Australia, celebrates the Australian Government’s recent decision to allow the Murugappan (Nadesalingam) family to return home to Biloela in Queensland, she says their fight isn’t over nor is that of so many others seeking asylum…
Essay: The ‘Biloela family’ are going home – but what will Labor do with thousands of other asylum seekers in limbo in Australia?
In an article first published on The Conversation, MARY ANNE KENNY, an associate professor in the School of Law at Murdoch University in Australia, looks at the new Australian Government’s policies concerning asylum seekers and refugees…
New Australian government releases Sri Lankan family from immigration detention
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia’s new government said on Friday it would give temporary visas to a Sri Lankan asylum seeker family held in immigration detention since 2019, a step towards closure of one of the country’s most controversial migration cases. The Tamil family of four, Priya and Nadesalingam Murugappan and their two daughters, have been a […]
Essay: The double-standard we accept
MEREDITH WRIGHT, of Baptist World Aid Australia, reflects on Australia’s “confounding” immigration policies…