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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lorena Allam

Plea for return of two Aboriginal children stranded in UK without passports

The arrivals passport control area of Heathrow airport. An Aboriginal boy and a girl, aged 14 and 15, have been stranded in the UK without passports or visas since 2020. Their Wiradjuri mother was awarded parental responsibility in December last year.
The arrivals passport control area of Heathrow airport. An Aboriginal boy and a girl, aged 14 and 15, have been stranded in the UK without passports or visas since 2020. Their Wiradjuri mother was awarded parental responsibility in December last year. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Two Aboriginal children who have been stranded in the UK without passports or visas since 2020 while courts decided their guardianship must be immediately brought home to Australia, the nation’s peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children says.

The chief executive of SNAICC, Catherine Liddle, said it “beggared belief” that any government agency would allow vulnerable children to be “trapped in limbo” as “unwanted aliens in a distant country, with no family or cultural links”.

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