Analysis: Liberal MPs privately pushing for Biloela family to move to Perth | CroweDM
That means Scott Morrison has to make a new calculation about the case for compassion for Tharnicaa, her sister and her parents.Liberal MPs are privately seeking a solution that lets the family return to the Australian mainland after almost two years of punitive detention.
Morrison’s backbench colleagues are not breaking ranks publicly but they are urging ministers privately to fix the problem as soon as possible. The cost to the Australian taxpayer for keeping a single family in a remote detention facility, roughly $6.7 million so far, is indefensible when the four could be in the community on the mainland while the courts decide their fate.
The Biloela family are no longer faceless asylum seekers, easy to overlook in an election campaign. The government has given this family icon status. The Murugappans are known by the Queensland town that wants them back. They are singled out by their occupancy of a vast detention facility.The government’s talk of resettling the family in the United States or New Zealand is only that.
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