Karen and Mike Malherbe expected to move Western Australia (WA) next month and reunite with their family for the first time in three years. But meeting their first grandchild, and welcoming their second, now seems to be on hold for the foreseeable future. The couple had already sold their home in Illawarra, New South Wales (NSW), and bought a new one near Busselton in WA. But after the WA government on Thursday announced that it had backflipped on reopening the state border on Feb. 5, after promising not to, the pair were shattered. “Despite having family and owning real estate in WA, we’re homeless and aimless,” Malherbe told AAP. The Malherbes have to be out of their house in a week, but still have no idea when they will be able to move into their new one in WA. “I just really don’t understand why we’re being basically banned from …
‘On the Brink of Tears’: WA Border Backflip Leaves Aussie Couple ‘Homeless’
January 22, 2022
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