An Australian-born two-year-old child faces deportation, after the Department of Child Safety told the child’s foster mother she can’t apply to care for him.
The child’s biological mother was on a student visa at the time and despite being born in Australia, the child has no right to Australian residency.
Federal Immigration Minister Alex Hawke says the child can be sponsored by the Queensland government in these cases, and that he as a minister would, quote, “give it my full and compassionate consideration."