Three year old Tharnicca, detained on Christmas Island, is reportedly yet to see an infectious diseases specialist after being medically evacuated to Perth with a suspected blood infection.

Protestors will take to the street on Friday against the government’s detention of the Muruggapan family. 

The Tamil asylum seekers narrowly avoided deportation to Sri Lanka following a court injunction in 2017, but have since been held in mandatory detention on Christmas Island.

The move has been met with widespread criticism in the Biloela community, where the Muruggapans were living prior to being detained.