The grandparents of a Perth household are dealing with deportation tonight after flying into town from Eire with no journey exemption for being unvaccinated.
Anne and Audie Ryan-Murphy have been greeted on the airport final night time by border pressure officers and questioned for ten hours, earlier than being detained on the Hyatt Lodge in Perth's CBD.
The Irish couple determined to make the 19-hour journey to Perth to fulfill their granddaughter for the primary time, pondering they'd all the fitting approvals to make their reunion dream come true.
"I've by no means seen her. I've by no means met her," stated an emotional Ms Ryan-Murphey.
"It breaks my coronary heart.
"To be informed that after coming off a 19-hour flight.
"We have been devastated."
The pair informed 9news that border pressure officers stated they need to by no means have been allowed on the aircraft within the first place.
"Have we slipped by the online right here?" she stated.
"Why have been we allowed on?"
The Ryan-Murpheys timed their arrival to assist their son and daughter-in-law who is because of give delivery to their second youngster, any day now.
"I am clearly very closely pregnant, the infant is due very quickly," Leanne Heaney stated.
Exhausted by the entire ordeal, the household are pleading with the federal government for an exemption.
"It is simply so exhausting to get your head round, that they are so shut however will we ever get to see them? Will she get to fulfill them?"