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Thanks to a prompt intervention a Tamil family refugees delayed to be expulse

The Tamil Refugee Council said the family left Sri Lanka to escape a horrible situation.

The Tamil Refugee Council said the family left Sri Lanka to escape a horrible situation. Source: Tamil Refugee Council/Facebook

Thanks to the intervention of the advocacy groups including the Federation of Ethnic Communities of Australia, they intervened with the tribunal to postpone their flight from Melbourne to Sydney, eventually deporting them to Scri Lanka.


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By Sarah Abo, Andrea Nierhoff

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Thanks to the intervention of the advocacy groups including the Federation of Ethnic Communities of Australia, they intervened with the tribunal to postpone their flight from Melbourne to Sydney, eventually deporting them to Scri Lanka.


A family of Tamil refugees who have been living in Queensland for the past five years are waiting to be deported to Sri Lanka after being arrested by migrant police over the weekend for a move to Melbourne.


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