A Perth couple issues a plea to the Prime Minister Scott Morrison to relax international flight caps so they can return from Ukraine to be reunited with their young sons who they have not seen since for months.
"What country leaves their people in these situations, you know we're Australian, I always thought that meant mateship and compassion and empathy?" she said.
"The little one is of the greatest concern, in the mornings when I go to pick him up … he just says go away granny, I want mummy. "So I couldn't have any more children and that hit me really hard, so I ended up going and seeing a psychologist and in the end landed down the path of surrogacy because I still had my eggs," she said."You know when I look at them they feel abandoned and that makes me feel really guilty as a parent, you know that I can't get there to make them feel better," she said.
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