HISTORICAL FACTS: Biloela - Caught on Camera

Man jailed over ‘racially motivated attack’ against Queensland’s Biloela family

Jessie Newton, 40, pleaded guilty to assaulting Priya Nadesalingam and Nades Murugappan, and a string of other offences

The Guardian - AU · May 29

Back to Bilo review – the remarkable story of the Nadesalingams and Biloela makes for compelling theatre

Bille Brown theatre, Brisbane festivalThe refugee family’s fight against deportation to Sri Lanka and the successful grassroots campaign to bring them home made headlines for years – but this play widens a story often focused on trauma

The Guardian - AU · Sep 8, 2025

Priya Nadesalingam hits out at migration bill, saying Biloela return ‘impossible’ without mobile phone

As Albanese government’s prohibiting items bill looks to include mobile phones, Nadesalingam says it would worsen mental health of detainees

The Guardian - AU · Nov 27, 2024

Despite Anthony Albanese's promise, no Biloela-style intervention for asylum seekers in limbo

Kabir is one of thousands of asylum seekers living in Australia without a visa. He has not been detained, but without the right to work or access to Medicare, he is trapped nonetheless.

ABC News · Mar 7, 2023

Power line placement for new wind farm near Biloela will impact cropping operations, farmers say

Farmers in central Queensland say proposed transmission towers to connect a new wind farm to the grid will interfere with their ability to plant, spray and harvest on prime cropping land.

ABC News · Dec 6, 2022

Queensland's clean energy transition plan sparks fears for communities built on coal

For 36 years Ashley Cook has worked at a coal mine in regional Queensland, taking pride in his highly skilled dragline operator job. He's concerned about what the state government's energy plan could mean for communities like his.

ABC News · Sep 29, 2022

Priya Nadesalingam, mother of Biloela family, signs book deal for memoir of asylum ordeal

Mother of Tamil family will recount their remarkable journey, from fleeing war-torn Sri Lanka to enduring Australia’s immigration detention system

The Guardian - AU · Sep 19, 2022

Hundreds of dead fish found on banks of waterways near Gladstone and Biloela

It is a confronting sight, but water authorities say there is a simple explanation behind the phenomenon.

ABC News · Aug 11, 2022

The Nadesalingam family's 'very happy life' in Biloela now that visas approved

Nades Murugappan has returned to work at the Biloela meatworks, where he worked before his family was taken away by immigration officials in 2018, and, with his wife Priya, is also looking to start up a food van.

ABC News · Aug 6, 2022

'Biloela' Tamil family finally gets permanent residency

The Tamil “Biloela” family has been granted permanent residency by the Albanese government.

The Conversation · Aug 5, 2022