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Article: Fed: Deegan to lodge appeal to Immigration Department
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- June 9, 2003
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Fed: Deegan to lodge appeal to Immigration Department
By Sharon Mathieson
CANBERRA, June 9 AAP - Adelaide magistrate Brian Deegan will lodge
an appeal this week
against the Immigration Department's refusal to grant visas to two
children whose Indonesian
mother was killed in the Bali bombings.
Mr Deegan, whose son Joshua was also killed in last year's Bali
attack, wants to bring
the children to Australia for two weeks to visit their Iranian father,
who is being detained
in the Baxter immigration detention centre in South Australia.
Mr Deegan has guaranteed the Immigration Department that three-
year-old Sarah Sammaki
and seven-year-old Sabda Sammaki would ...