A Sri Lankan asylum seeker family that's been detained on Christmas Island since 2019 is to live in community detention on the mainland after the youngest child became sick and was flown to hospital in Perth.
The Federal Immigration Minister Alex Hawke says letting them reunite on the mainland doesn't mean they will get asylum.
Melbourne-based, New Zealand journalist, Rebekah Holt has been reporting on the family's plight since 2018 and has spoken with the mother Priya & her four year old daughter Tharnicaa in hospital.
Priya and four year old Tharnicaa in hospital Photo: Rebekah Holt
