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Unknown fate for Rithish’s family Source:-dandenong The Federal Government won’t comment on pleas for a grief-stricken asylum seeker family to stay in Australia. The local community has been swift to help the Tamil family who lost their four-year-old son Rithish Kirushnaneethan in a house fire in Leonard Street, Dandenong on 25 July. More than $100,000 had been raised on a Go Fund Me page for the family, who had left homeless and without any belongings. Grief counselling, clothes and basic supplies have also been provided. The family is still living under threat of deportation since arriving by boat from Sri Lanka in 2012. They had been detained on Christmas Island and in Adelaide, and remained on a bridging visa for nine years, according to the Go Fund Me page. In 2018, the family was last interviewed by Department of Home Affairs as part of their application for permanent protection. They ...