Social worker Angela Fredericks has urged the federal government to “stop wasting money and destroying lives” and allow the Bileola family to resettle in regional Queensland.
Calls for government intervention have escalated after the family’s youngest daughter, Tharunicaa, was transferred to Perth to receive emergency medical treatment. The three-year-old is understood to be suffering from septicemia - a serious blood infection - which resulted from untreated pneumonia. Friends of the family say the child’s condition significantly deteriorated after requests for medical intervention were ignored by detention staff on Christmas Island.
Ms Fredericks has called for a “rational” response to the situation, arguing granting the family permission to stay would not “jeopardise all the other policies, all the other protocols that this government has in place” in dealing with asylum seekers. “I think what we’re getting so frustrated about is there’s a very clear resettlement option for this family and that’s here in Biloela,” she told Sky News.
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