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Bilolea residents join livestream to wish asylum-seeker Kopika happy birthday

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Friends of Kopika Murugappan wished her a happy birthday via a Zoom online meeting while the five-year-old and her family are detained in Christmas Island. They're the only residents of the reopened detention centre and have now been in detention for more than 800 days.
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