Good morning. The Queensland town of Biloela prepares to welcome home the Nadesalingam family after campaigning for their return since 2018, while Anthony Albanese greets Jacinda Ardern, the first foreign leader to visit him on home soil.
Refugees living in limbo in Australia hope the much-publicised Nadesalingam family’s release will grant them a future as well. Such was the public backing for the Tamil refugee family that one of the first acts of the newly minted Labor government was to grant them bridging visas – but not permanent protection. Unlike the Nadesalingams, refugee Abbas Maghames’ story has largely flown under the radar. He lives with his sister, Hajar, and his elderly parents, Malakeh and Yaghob, in community detention in Loganlea, a 40-minute drive from Brisbane’s CBD, and has been in indefinite detention for a decade.
