Townsville hair stylist Jessie Pegoraro has actually had her hands complete looking after her 2 young daughters throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Key points:
- Anthony Gabiola has actually been waiting to go home from his FIFO job because March
- Many FIFO workers have actually been stuck in Western Australia due to COVID border closures
- Separated families are facing the continuous unpredictability of not understanding when borders will resume
Her partner, Anthony Gabiola, is a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) worker and has actually been stuck in Western Australia considering that March.
” We chose to do FIFO, we’ve chosen this way of life,” Ms Pegoraro told 7.30
” I don’t understand just how much longer I can do this.”
FIFO workers require to get travel exemptions and, if approved, go through two weeks quarantine whenever they go into WA.
Mr Gabiola is worried if he flies back to Queensland, he will not be allowed back into WA to work.
” If I can’t get back, well, I run out a job,” Mr Gabiola informed 7.30
” We’ve got a home mortgage. If I’m out of a task, well, yeah, you’re buggered quite much.”
Ms Pegoraro stated the uncertaint