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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Mostafa Rachwani Community affairs reporter

Priya Nadesalingam hits out at migration bill, saying Biloela return ‘impossible’ without mobile phone

Emotional scenes as the Nadesalingam family arrive at Thangool aerodrome in 2022.
The Nadesalingams were released and returned to Biloela in 2022 after the new Labor government fulfilled an election promise to allow them to stay in Australia. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Priya Nadesalingam has spoken out against the Albanese government’s immigration detention bill, saying her family’s return to Biloela would have been “impossible” without access to a mobile phone while detained.

Nadesalingam, alongside her husband, Nades, and their two young daughters, was taken from the Queensland town in March 2018 and placed in immigration detention while the then Coalition government sought to have the Tamil asylum seekers deported to Sri Lanka.

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