{"id":202492,"date":"2021-06-14T03:53:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/14\/coalition-to-make-imminent-decision-on-biloela-familys-future-as-hopes-grow-of-return-to-mainland"},"modified":"2021-06-14T09:53:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:53:49","slug":"coalition-to-make-imminent-decision-on-biloela-familys-future-as-hopes-grow-of-return-to-mainland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/14\/coalition-to-make-imminent-decision-on-biloela-familys-future-as-hopes-grow-of-return-to-mainland\/","title":{"rendered":"Biloela family to reunite on Australian mainland but visa status expected to remain unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The immigration minister, Alex Hawke, is set to announce the Murugappan family will be released from detention on Christmas Island<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/12\/biloela-fights-for-tamil-family-we-fell-in-love-with-them-when-they-were-here\">Biloela fights for Tamil family: \u2018We fell in love with them\u2019<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/12\/if-you-think-australia-making-an-example-of-a-sick-three-year-old-is-an-exception-think-again-this-is-what-we-do\">Katharine Murphy: if you think Australia making an example of a sick three-year-old is an exception, think again<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>The immigration minister, Alex Hawke, is set to announce on Tuesday that the Murugappan family will be released from detention on Christmas Island and allowed to reunite on the Australian mainland.<\/p><p>Hawke will use his ministerial discretion to allow the family to return but the government is not expected to make any substantive changes to their visa status which is still being argued in the courts.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/12\/biloela-fights-for-tamil-family-we-fell-in-love-with-them-when-they-were-here\">Biloela fights for Tamil family: \u2018We fell in love with them when they were here\u2019<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/13\/this-has-gone-on-too-long-more-coalition-mps-call-for-biloela-family-to-be-freed-from-detention\">\u2018This has gone on too long\u2019: more Coalition MPs call for Biloela family to be freed from detention<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/14\/coalition-to-make-imminent-decision-on-biloela-familys-future-as-hopes-grow-of-return-to-mainland\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/14\/coalition-to-make-imminent-decision-on-biloela-familys-future-as-hopes-grow-of-return-to-mainland\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immigration minister, Alex Hawke, is set to announce the Murugappan family will be released from detention on Christmas IslandBiloela fights for Tamil family: \u2018We fell in love with them\u2019Katharine Murphy: if you think Australia making an example of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1729,1730,29490,1728,2883,6,13082,29491,22201,242,23077,2672,11436,238,2678],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202712,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202492\/revisions\/202712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}