Friends, tomorrow on Friday we mark the passing of three years of detention for Priya, Nades and their QLD-born girls, since the guards snatched our beautiful family from their Biloela home at dawn on 5th March 2018.

From dawn in Biloela to dusk on Christmas Island, you are invited to join one of many peaceful vigils being held around Australia. Australian icon and The Castle star Michael Caton, who spent his early years in Biloela, will join our Sydney vigil.

Can you please click or tap through to a vigil near you and choose ‘Going’ to let me know you’ll be there? Please invite your friends and family on Facebook to join one of the gatherings:

Biloela, Lions Park 5am

Sydney, Town Hall 6pm

Melbourne, Parliament Gardens 5pm

Brisbane, King George Square 6.30pm

Canberra, Garema Place 5.30pm

Adelaide, Pilgrim Uniting Church 6.30pm

Perth, Murray Street Mall 6pm

Hobart, St David’s Cathedral 5pm

Darwin, Mercure Darwin Airport Resort 5pm

Bundaberg, 41 Woongarra St 5.30pm

Warrnambool, 73 Kepler St 12pm

Newcastle, Civic Park 5pm

Port Macquarie Foreshore 5pm

Armidale, Central Park 7.30pm

Moruya, Red Door Hall, St John’s Way 6pm

Christmas Island, Cove Gazebos 4.30pm

Please bring candles and cockatoos to join our peaceful, covid-safe vigils. Click here to download a PDF of the #HomeToBilo cockatoo to print.

Wherever you are, please download and print a #HomeToBilo cockatoo to place in your street-facing window or on your letterbox or fence tomorrow.

If you can't find a #HometoBilo vigil in your area, please stand in your doorway or driveway with a candle at dusk, take a photo and upload it to social media with the #HometoBilo hashtag.

Please send photos of your group or individual vigil to us at the #HometoBilo Facebook page to share.

In hope,

Angela