A Tamil asylum seeker family is in Darwin after a judge granted a last-minute injunction to stop their deportation.
The fate of Priya, her husband Nadesalingam and their two Australian-born daughters will now be decided at an urgent court hearing in Melbourne on Friday morning at 10am.
The family was bundled onto a plane at Melbourne airport on Thursday evening after a long-running battle against a federal government order to deport them to Sri Lanka.
However, the plane landed in Darwin early on Friday and Priya, her husband Nadesalingam and their two Australian-born daughters were taken to accommodation, according to a family friend who was in contact with them by phone.
"They're pretty traumatised as you can imagine but also very relieved to be still here," former Biloela resident Simone Cameron told AAP.
