The full bench of the Federal Court has upheld an earlier decision which found three-year-old Tharunicaa was not given procedural fairness when her application for a protection visa was assessed.
Kulasegaram Sanchayan brings the story with comments from Tharunicaa’s mother Priya Nades, and Angela Fredericks, an activist calling for the family to return to Biloela.

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