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Biloela residents bring fight to return ‘loved’ asylum seeker family home to Q&A panel
At dawn on March 5, Nadesalingam and Priya and their two Australian born daughters were taken from their home in Biloela and placed into custody by Border Force officials.
- Rebeka Powell
- ABC
Almost three months later, the family remains in a detention centre in Melbourne.
Now Biloela locals Marie and Margot have made a public plea on Q&A to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Peter Dutton, to allow the family to stay in Australia.
“Our town loved this little family and we want them to come home,” Marie said.
“I personally have…