Petition updateBring Priya and her beautiful family back home to Biloela, Queensland“We love our Grandma so much!”
Angela FredericksBILOELA, Australia
Mar 29, 2022

Kopi and Tharni’s “Aussie Grandma” Margot first met Kopi when she was a few months old. She held Tharni in her arms as a newborn baby.

“I couldn’t put her down,” Margot told Priya during our country-wide Zoom meeting. “I guess that was just fate telling me that me and Tharni are going to have this connection forever. For life.”

It was wonderful to see them reunite on the weekend after Margot’s long journey to Perth, where Scott Morrison’s Ministers are keeping four year old Tharni in “community detention”.

Today, our MPs and Senators are meeting in Canberra for the last time before the election. Can you tap through to our action page to call your government representative now?

With Scott Morrison’s Ministers finally allowing 450 people who came here by sea to settle in New Zealand, people have asked what this means for our Biloela family.

Last June, Mr Morrison’s Ministers said they were "investigating" resettlement in the US or NZ.

But the next day, they backpedaled, ruling out any chance our Biloela family would be allowed to settle in a safe third country.

We must speak up now, while there’s time. Please tap through to our action page to call your government MP or Senator now.

Scott Morrison’s Ministers have granted temporary “bridging visas” to Priya, Nades and Kopi.

Because Mr Morrison’s Ministers are choosing to withhold the same visa from four-year-old Tharni, Priya and Nades can’t come home to Biloela without splitting their family apart.

Priya is terrified that Mr Morrison’s Ministers are keeping Tharni in “community detention” so they can force her beautiful family from Australia to danger after the election. And so am I.

Today is our last chance to make our voices heard while our MPs and Senators are together in Canberra - but it’s also the day when your phone call is most powerful.

Anthony Albanese and Kristina Keneally have repeatedly pledged to bring Priya, Nades, Kopi and Tharni safely #HometoBilo.

But as we learned in 2019, we can’t afford to sit our hands and gamble this family’s safety on an election that no-one can predict.

I would be so grateful if you could take a moment to call your government MP or Senator now.

Margot has lived in a lot of rural Queensland towns. When she says “you don’t muck with Biloela people,” she knows what she’s talking about.

“And Priya and Nades - they’re Biloela people”, she told Australian Story last year.

Thank you for everything you are doing to get Priya, Nades, Kopi and Tharni safely home to Biloela now, before the election.

On the day we bring them home, we’ll all be “Biloela people”, in a way.

With hope,

Angela

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