Nine years on, a Sri Lankan Tamil family is still waiting to get asylum in Australia
Nades Murugappan had applied for a permanent protection visa on the basis of his association with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam. Feb 17, 2021 · 09:30 pm Murugappan family was removed from their home in the Queensland town of Biloela and put in detention in Melbourne more than 1,000 days ago. | Twitter/ @HometoBilo
Priya and Nades Murugappan and their two children Kopika and Tharunicaa have been seeking protection visas in Australia since 2012. Nearly a decade later, they are still waiting.
The family was removed from their home in the Queensland town of Biloela and put in detention in Melbourne more than 1,000 days ago. In August 2019, they were moved to Christmas Island while their case was proceeding slowly through the courts.
“When the centre was established back in 2012, some of the concerns that are making headlines now were raised and mitigated. “Officials between then and now seem to think that the mitigations have been meeting their purpose,” Faafoi said.
Stuff’s report followed stories in Canada s
and Mail newspaper that a similar system was being used for Canadian visas. That story led Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to ask his immigration and procurement ministers to ensure that his Government could guarantee the safety of its visa application system. Faafoi said that ministers would not conduct a similar investigation in New Zealand.
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A development policy thinktank has called on Australia to improve direct migration routes with its Pacific neighbours, saying the country has outsourced its Pacific migration policy to New Zealand.
New research found despite a rapid growth in the number of Samoans living in Australia, only four per cent migrate directly.
The Australian National University s Development Policy Centre found the overwhelming majority move to Australia via New Zealand.
Report co-author and centre director, Dr Stephen Howes, said the migration route had become a well-worn path.
A special visa agreement between the two countries allows 1,000 Samoans to move to New Zealand each year.
Australia threatens to deport British backpackers after Sydney beach party broke Covid rules
Hundreds of people were seen drinking, dancing and singing in park next to Bronte Beach on Christmas Day
29 December 2020 • 9:39am
Australia has threatened to deport British backpackers who joined a large beach party in Sydney s eastern suburbs on Christmas Day.
Alex Hawke, the immigration minister, said he was shocked after footage showed crowds gathering at the popular Bronte Beach, breaching social distancing rules imposed in response to a Covid outbreak in Sydney s north.
Mr Hawke said the federal government would be looking at the visa conditions of the attendees.
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