Sri Lankan asylum seeker family being granted deportation reprieve
An Australian Federal Court judge has granted an extended injunction preventing the deportation of a Tamil family from Darwin to Sri Lanka until after another court hearing next Wednesday.
Angel Aleksov, representing the family, asked Justice Mordecai Bromberg to extend the injunction so they could make a further application for Priya, Nades and their daughters to remain in Australia.
Federal Circuit Court Judge Heather Riley granted the injunction by phone late Thursday night, preventing any attempts to remove them from Australia after their departure on a Sri Lanka bound flight from Melbourne.
The plane was forced to land in Darwin.
Mr Aleksov has applied to the court on behalf of two-year-old Tharunicca.
There has been a request on her behalf to Mr Coleman for permission to make a visa application.
But Mr Aleksov said there has been no assessment by any Australian official about whether she is owed protection by the federal government.
Failure by the department to refer this question to the minister for an answer is “unreasonable in a legal sense”, he said.
Unless there was a halt on the midday deportation, there would be no time to appropriately consider her case for a visa.
Christopher Tran, representing the immigration department and minister David Coleman, agreed to the extension but opposed the outcome.
“The application on its face is hopeless,” he said.
Justice Bromberg ordered the Australian government be prevented from removing Tharunicca and her family until 4pm Wednesday, September 4.
The case will return to court on the Wednesday morning.
(Source: 7NEWS)
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Australia is a racist paradise.
The Immigration Minister, who attempted to takeover the ruling party through a coup (similar to what Gamralage attempted to do in SL late last year), is not only a racist but resembles the appearance of Hitler.
Karusha,
Excellent comment,
Only Sinhala Buddhist cowards like Blogger AMARAKOON can live in Australia.
Mr Sleiman,
Your comments lack context, but smack of prejudice against Mr Amarakoon!
If, as Karusha suggests, Australia is a “racist paradise”, then only people of European descent can live there.
This, in fact, negates Mr Amarakoon, but might include yourself!
Yes, I am a Sinhala Buddhist and what I have to do in a land snatched from Aboriginals by White settlers. Can you please explain.
unfortunately the Minister is right. If Australia starts giving residency to every one that gets on a boat pretending to be refugees then there will more and more getting on boats to Australia. I think these people who get on boats are doing the wrong thing. Any country should be able to decide who they want to take in and who they do not want. The boat people are getting in to another country illegally and then cry that they are being mistreated. Regardless whether they are Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims or Christians they should not be encouraged to enter another country and then hold them to ransom with cries of ill treatment when the only action any country should take is to send hem back. It sounds inhumane but that is the way it should be.