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Words: Sarah IsonProducer: Louise Starkey
Biloela ready to welcome home Murugappan family
Picture: Facebook | Bring Priya, Nades and their girls home to Biloela
After almost four years in various forms of detention, the Murugappan family from the Queensland town of Biloela is set to go home after a change in government.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers declared the Tamil family would be returned to Biloela "as soon as possible", following Labor's Federal Election win on May 21.
Picture: Facebook | Bring Priya, Nades and their girls home to Biloela
Mr Albanese came to Biloela about … three years ago and talked to us about the concerns we had about the family. And support them he has. So we’re confident this election promise will be fulfilled and they will be home safe in Biloela.
Bronwyn Dendle
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Nades and Priya Murugappan — who fled Sri Lanka and the persecution of Tamils to Australia in 2012 and 2013 respectively — were taken into custody with their children, Kopika and Tharni, by the Australian Border Force after four years in Biloela.
Video: Facebook | Bring Priya, Nades and their girls home to Biloela
The Coalition government attempted to deport them in 2019 but was stopped by an injunction.
Since then, the Murugappans have been in detention on Christmas Island and community detention in Perth after younger daughter Tharni was flown to the mainland for medical treatment.
Labor had been vocal on the family's plight, with then-opposition home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally visiting them often and making the plea personally.
Keneally lost her place in parliament, after a swing of almost 20 per cent against Labor in the NSW seat of Fowler, into which Mr Albanese parachuted the former NSW premier.
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