Two young girls and their asylum seeker parents remain in detention despite years of campaigning.
The two sisters at home in Biloela and at their detention centre on Christmas Island
They live in a guarded compound under 24-hour watch - an operation that has cost more than A$6m so far. They settled in a country town in Queensland, and lived there for years, until police arrived to deport them. Both moved to Biloela, which had a meatworks known to employ new migrants including Tamil asylum seekers.image captionNades worked while Priya took care of the children. On the weekends, they would go fishing or play card games at home with their friends.
The family were flown to a detention centre across the country in Melbourne. A few days later they were bundled onto a flight to Sri Lanka.When their friends were taken away, the 6,000-strong town of Biloela took their outrage to the media.
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