Tamil family supporters call for meeting with PM

Friends of the Tamil family - currently held in detention on Christmas Island - have travelled from Biloela to Canberra in hope of speaking with Prime Minister Scott Morrison. “We really just wanted to come down and hopefully get five minutes of the Prime Minister’s time to really put our case forward to him why this family is so important to us and why we want them back in Biloela,” family friend Angela Fredricks said. The Prime Minister has so far rejected calls to use ministerial discretion to grant the family a permanent visa, warning it would re-ignite the people smuggling trade. The family of four will remain in Australia until September 18 after the Federal Court extended an injunction preventing the government from deporting the youngest daughter. Image: News Corp Australia