Friday 24 June 2022 04:09 AM Biloela asylum seeker family daughters enjoy first day of school after trends now
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They could be any other Aussie school kids but the beaming smiles on the faces of Kopika and Tharnicaa Nadesalingam reflected a special joy at attending their first day of school.
It's the type of normalcy that is a far cry from the two years they spent with their parents Nades and Priya as the only occupants of the reopened Christmas Island detention centre.
Tharnicaa, 5, tightly grips the straps of her oversized pink school bag, which come with an attached toy pink unicorn while Kopika, 7, stands straight showing off her impressive hair plaits in a pic tweeted by Seven News journalist Ebony Abblitt.
Tharnicaa, five, and Nadesalingam, seven, are all smiles on their first day at school in the Queensland town of Biloela in another sign the family is beginning to enjoy a normal life after their high-profile four-year battle against being deported to Sri Lanka
'And they loved it' replied an account run by family friend and local social worker Angela Fredericks, who has led the fight to let the family stay.
The might have many more years of schooling ahead of them if their mother gets her way.
“I hope they go to study, they go to university … I hope their future is [to become] doctors,” she told The Guardian after the family returned to the outback Queensland town of Biloela.
The photo is another sign the Nadesalingams are beginning to enjoy a typical Australian family life that for so long seemed out of reach as they and their advocates
