Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says he won't take a "moral lecture" from supporters of a Tamil family fighting deportation from Australia, while at the same time warning of the threat of asylum seeker boats from Sri Lanka.
Mr Dutton has defended the government's decision to deport Priya, her husband Nadesalingam and their Australian-born daughters Kopika, 4, and Tharunicaa, 2, in an opinion piece published in News Ltd newspapers.