Jessie Newton, 40, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after carrying out a racially motivated attack on Priya and Nades Murugappan — the Tamil asylum seeker family widely known as the “Biloela family.” The court heard Newton drew swastikas, hurled racist abuse, threatened the family with a fuel can, and threw bird carcass feathers at Priya during the incident at Lions Park in Biloela. Magistrate Peter Kuskie called the behaviour “absolutely outrageous and disgusting” and told Newton he was “a disgrace to this country.”