Fight to stop Tamils being deported from Australia – bogus allegations to SL Gov. by LTTE front Org.
The fight to keep a Sri Lankan Tamil family who entered illegally in Australia has started in Melbourne with government lawyers filing last-minute evidence.
Sri Lankan Tamil couple Priya and Nades Murugappan and their Australian-born daughters Kopika and Tharunicaa, aged four and two, are detained on Christmas Island.
Government “lawyers decided just prior to the hearing they now wish to file more evidence so we’re not in a position to proceed with the second ground today”, the family’s lawyer Carina Ford explained outside the Federal Court on Friday.
Priya, Nades and Kopika have been refused refugee status and the legal battle hinges on Tharunicaa and her right to apply for protection.
The second ground relates to ministerial use of powers under a section of the immigration act and whether the process was fair.
“It is a bit disappointing to know things aren’t quite ready on the minister’s side,” Ms Ford said.
The family settled in the Queensland country town of Biloela before being taken to detention in Melbourne in March 2018, then transferred to Christmas Island in 2019.
“We’re begging the immigration minister (David Coleman) and home affairs minister (Peter Dutton) to let this family out and let this family go back to Biloela, at least while they go through the legal process,” Tamil Refugee Council, a pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist front organization spokesman Aran Mylvaganam said.
Further, pro-Tamil terrorist Mylvaganam had said that the situation for Tamils in Sri Lanka had also become worse with the election of a new president which is completely bogus claim to get the political asylum and refugee status by the many Sri Lankan Tamils.
The family remain on the island and the case will continue on Tuesday before Justice Mark Moshinsky.
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