For four years, one Tamil family, with their two small children, have been living in community detention. How did they learn they would be able to return to their home in rural Queensland? And what does the decision say about the future of immigration policy in Australia? Today, journalist Rebekah Holt, who spent election night with the Nadesalingam family, on the moment the family realised they could finally go home.

Speaking from a hospital in Perth, Priya Murugappan details her daughter’s sickness and her family’s struggle in detention. More than three years after they were taken from their home in Biloela, the Tamil family just want to be settled.