Interim home affairs minister to discuss arrangements with PM to grant family visa and permit their return to Queensland town
“Obviously there are a series of steps that I would need to appropriately take in order to give effect to our long-held view that that family must get home to Biloela, to the warm embrace of one of the most wonderful Queensland towns,” Chalmers said on Wednesday.
The interim minister said it warmed the heart to see the way the town of Biloela has “gotten around this beautiful family and campaigned long and hard for this family to be returned to their home in Biloela where they are making such a terrific contribution to the local community”. “If you will forgive me a moment of parochialism, as a Queenslander born and bred, I am so sick and tired of Queensland being caricatured in a certain way when it comes to some of these issues,” he said.
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