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Nadesalingam and Priya … Nadesalingam has been working at the Biloela meatworks (Photo: Change.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>March 14, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

The organiser of an online petition urging the Federal Government to release a Tamil family from detention and allow them to return home to Biloela has now launched a phone campaign aimed at local MP Ken O’Dowd.<\/p>\n

Biloela resident Angela Fredericks has been urging people who signed her change.org petition to phone Member for Flynn Ken O’Dowd to encourage him to attend a vigil planned to be held in Biloela on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Ms Fredericks says the family, including two children born in Australia, have been “cruelly forced from their home”.<\/p>\n

By 2:00pm on Wednesday, more than 58,300 people had signed her petition to release the couple from detention.<\/p>\n

It is believed Nadesalingam and Priya came to Australia separately by boat in 2012 and 2013 following Sri Lanka\u2019s civil war and settled in Biloela on a bridging visa.<\/p>\n

This expired last Monday.<\/p>\n

Border Force officers took the couple into custody a few days later.<\/p>\n

Ms Fredericks said the vigil would be held in Biloela Lions Park.<\/p>\n

“Can you call our local MP, Ken O\u2019Dowd before 5:00pm today and ask him to attend so he can see our community\u2019s true heart?” she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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