Peter Dutton hits back at 'Labor opportunists' over Tamil family facing deportation

Minister calls case of couple who arrived from Sri Lanka and settled in Biloela ‘complex’

Peter Dutton has hit back at refugee advocates and “Labor opportunists” for trying to prevent the deportation of a Tamil couple and their Australian-born children to Sri Lanka, saying they are not refugees.

Arguing that there are 68 million displaced people who have a more “compelling” case to be resettled in Australia than the family who settled in Biloela, the home affairs minister used an opinion piece in the Courier-Mail on Monday to stress that the government needed to make “tough decisions”.

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