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Australia’s High Court denies four-year-old asylum seeker the right to appeal visa refusal

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According to this article on World Socialist Web Site, by Max Boddy

“The High Court of Australia last week ruled against four-year-old asylum seeker Tharnicaa Murugappan, the youngest of a family of four from Biloela, a town in central Queensland. Without providing any real explanation, two judges summarily rejected her application to appeal against a decision to deny her a protection visa to stay in Australia.

As a result, the threat of deportation to Sri Lanka again hangs over the head of Tharnicaa and her family, with their fate left in the hands of federal Liberal-National Coalition government.

After Tharnicaa developed a life-threatening blood condition due to improper medical treatment, the family was flown to Perth, the state capital of Western Australia, in June following three years of being locked up in immigration prisons, most recently on the remote Christmas Island outpost in the Indian Ocean.”

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