A grief-stricken Melbourne mother who failed eight times to get a travel exemption to see her dead daughter has finally been granted permission to cross the Victoria-South Australia border.
The family, originally from South Sudan, will quarantine for 14 days, at the end of which they will be able to hold a funeral and finally lay Margaret to rest.
Ms Dau told SBS News she had been unable to sleep for more than a couple of hours at a time since her daughter's sudden death. Her husband died from an infection related to a gunshot wound he suffered as a soldier fighting in the Sudanese Civil War. The family spent seven years in a refugee camp before arriving in Melbourne.
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