A New Zealand couple desperately trying to get home following a cancer diagnosis have given up hope after having plans cancelled multiple times because of border changes.
Craig Helm said he and his wife Fiona, who is battling cancer, are trying to get back to New Zealand so they can get support for her but have been unable to get an exemption to return and have lost multiple bookings because of changing travel restrictions.
The pair are now living in their daughter's one-bedroom apartment in Adelaide, Helm said, and in a few days, he will be jobless.
"It keeps playing on her mind, like we get built up, she gets her hopes up that we're going in November, then bam, then it goes against it, and it pushes her right back. Then they say we're opening and we book seats for the 21st of January...Now they've changed the rules again."
As well as this, he said they had already moved one of her surgeries to fit around the dates.