'I am missing a huge chunk of their lives.'
When hospital emergency department nurse Meeya Wright took a job down in Melbourne in January she thought her five children would soon join her.
Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski says they have intercepted 17,000 vehicles at the border, turning around more than 500 vehicles with 850 people since Friday.Nearly 500,000 border pass documents had been downloaded. “It’s very hard, I was a stay-at-home mum when they were little, then going to this where I haven’t seen them in 17 weeks, I haven’t done mum things in 17 weeks. I am missing a huge chunk of their lives,” she said.
“These are difficult decisions and we want to assure Queenslanders that every exemption application is considered with their safety in mind,” the spokesperson said.
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