Tamil family's battle to remain in Australia returns to court

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The hearing will test two-year-old Tharunicaa's case for protection, including whether her circumstances should have been assessed by the home affairs minister.

The hearing will test Tharunicaa's case for protection, including whether her circumstances should have been assessed by the home affairs minister.

"The only way this family is going to stay, even if the court application is successful, is for the minister to intervene because he is the only one that holds that power," the lawyer Carina Ford said outside court on Monday. Nadesalingam and Priya came separately to Australia illegally by boat after the war ended. They met here and had two children before settling in Biloela.

But Mr Dutton said he travelled back to Sri Lanka on a number of occasions and he had been unable to convince a succession of courts that he would be in danger.

 

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