‘Bring them home’: fresh calls for release of family in Australian detention centre

Three-year-old and her family held in immigration facility for years as government fights to deport them

The plight of a three-year old girl who has spent nearly her entire life in Australian immigration detention facilities has galvanised opposition to the country's offshore detention system.

Tharnicaa Murugappan was evacuated to a children's hospital on Monday where she was diagnosed with a blood infection and pneumonia, which she contracted on a remote island detention centre.