Aussie PM cooks up Sri Lankan curry for his family and triggers furious response

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison shared his lamb baduma with godamba rotis on social media
But it sparked controversy over a Tamil family held in immigration detention
Murugappan family used to cook same curry for hospital staff before their arrest
Now held on Christmas Island for past two years as they fight deportation

Aussie PM cooks up a Sri Lankan curry for his family but seemingly innocent selfies by the stove triggers a furious response

Morrison’s choice of a Sri Lankan dish quickly drew comparisons to a Tamil family who have spent the past two years in immigration detention. Priya and Nades Murugappan and their Australian-born daughters Kopika and Tharunicaa are currently fighting deportation

Prime Minister Scott Morrison shared a series of snaps of a Sri Lankan lamb baduma with godamba rotis he cooked up at The Lodge in Canberra

dailymail.co.uk: Scott Morrison has again sparked controversy with an innocent photo of his Saturday night kitchen creations. The Prime Minister shared a series of snaps of a Sri Lankan lamb baduma with

godamba rotis he cooked up at The Lodge in Canberra.

‘Girls and Jen loved it,’ he wrote of his wife Jennifer and daughters Abbey, 12, and Lily, 10, whom he cooks curries for every weekend.

‘Still thinking of everyone in Melbourne. Hope you’re finding ways to make the best of it in lockdown. You’ve turned the corner.’The weekly insight into his family life is a benign attempt to humanise the national leader, but is frequently hijacked by politics.

Morrison’s choice of a Sri Lankan dish quickly drew comparisons to a Tamil family who have spent the past two years in immigration detention.

Priya and Nades Murugappan and their two young daughters lived in the small Queensland town of Biloela where they were beloved by locals. Left-wing activist and Change.org director Sally Ruggs pointed out that the same curry Morrison made for his family was a staple of the Murugappan household. “Before the Morrison Government raided her house before sunrise, bundled her husband and babies in separate vans and detained them for the last two and a half years, Priya would make Sri Lankan curries - the homeland she was forced to flee from - for the local hospital staff,” she wrote on Twitter. Instead of feeding beleaguered health workers during the pandemic, they are the only people detained on Christmas Island at a cost of $20,000 a day.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton wants them to go back to Sri Lanka – where they fear persecution – and claims the parents are being ‘unfair on their children’ for fighting deportation.