Morning mail: Biloela girl evacuated, aged care vaccinations, Australia’s new dinosaur
Tuesday: youngest daughter of Tamil family detained on Christmas Island taken to Perth for emergency medical care. Plus: meet our Titanosaur
Good morning. It's Tuesday 8 June and this is Imogen Dewey with today's main stories: one in four voters think the Morrison government is doing a poor" job of managing Covid-19, the Ben Roberts-Smith trial continues, and a massive new dinosaur has been found in Australia.
The youngest daughter of the Tamil family from Biloela who have been detained for more than 18 months on Christmas Island has been taken to Perth for emergency medical care, advocates said last night. Tharnicaa Murugappan has been evacuated along with her mother, Priya, for treatment for a suspected blood infection, but her father, Nades, and sister, Kopika, were not allowed to travel. The Department of Home Affairs said it was committed to the welfare of detainees". The government has been ordered to pay an Iraqi asylum seeker $350,000 in damages for unlawfully detaining him for more than two years, after a legal battle that could set a precedent for similar cases.
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