Aussies rally for asylum seekers
PATRICK Dangerfield was the star attraction at a celebration of all things footy at Armstrong Creek yesterday.
Fresh off the back of his seventh AllAustralian selection, the Cats midfielder signed autographs and posed for photos with fans who attended the event at Warralily Display Village.
He even showed his support for the Armstrong Creek Sharks, donning the club’s orange and blue scarf for a photo. HOME Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has been accused of taking pleasure in others’ suffe fering in attempting to deport a Tamil asylum seeker family. Thousands of people have ra rallied across the country demanding Priya, her husband Nadesalingam and their A Australian-born children K Kopika, 4, and Tharunicaa, 2, stay. They are being held on Christmas Island after an 11th-hour court injunction a against their deportation. “This is a minister in Peter D Dutton taking pleasure in the su suffering of others, that’s w what’s going on here. It’s barba baric, it’s cruel and it needs to en end,” federal Greens leader R Richard Di Natale said at a ra rally in Melbourne yesterday. Federal opposition leader A Anthony Albanese pleaded for th the government to make an e exception and let the family return to their adopted community of Biloela, in regional Queensland. “Minister Dutton has got h himself in a circumstance w whereby, in order to show that he he’s harsh and tough, he’s sh showing that he has no hum manity. Australia is a better co country than that,” he said.