'Please, hurry up ... thousands and thousands of child asylum seekers are waiting for this decision.' WorldRefugeeWeek WorldRefugeeDay UNrefugees
Source:Nine years ago he and his young family were on a perilous boat journey from Indonesia, organised by a people smuggler, during which his 18-month-old daughter nearly died. She hadn’t eaten for four days and stopped breathing.Advertisement
"Without access to higher education, my oldest daughter cannot go to university next year. With the temporary visa, at the moment, she would have to pay as an international student ... which is thousands and thousands of dollars," he says. The next trauma came from being in detention on Christmas Island — "finding out that the reality of the place we'd sought safety in was very different from what we'd imagined".
He is now calling on the country's new Labor government to urgently enact its election pledge to grant permanent visas to those stuck on the temporary protection program. After having applications for asylum knocked back, the couple had entered into legal battles to stay in the country, saying they would face persecution if they were returned to Sri Lanka. But their legal options are now exhausted.The Nadesalingam family has returned to Biloela. But thousands of refugees remain in limbo
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