Priya Nadesalingam, mother of Biloela family, signs book deal for memoir of asylum ordeal
by Guardian staff from on (#63SHE)
Mother of Tamil family will recount their remarkable journey, from fleeing war-torn Sri Lanka to enduring Australia's immigration detention system
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Priya Nadesalingam, the mother of the Tamil asylum seeker family at the centre of a four-year legal battle to stay in Australia, is writing a memoir of her family's experience of being held within Australia's immigration detention system.
Nadesalingam, her husband Nades, and their Australian-born daughters Kopika and Tharunicaa, were forcibly removed from their Biloela home in Queensland by Australian Border Force officials during a dawn raid in March 2018.
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