6 Jul 2020

Couple in limbo in NZ due to Tonga's border controls

From Morning Report, 6:45 am on 6 July 2020

A couple stranded in New Zealand say a lack of clear decision-making about reopening Tonga's border has left them and thousands of others in limbo.

Kate Woodward, who is British, and her partner Will Hafu, a Tongan New Zealander, own a backpackers in Tonga, where they've been living for the past five years.

After visiting the UK for Kate to give birth around friends and family, the couple made their way home with their son, but by then Tonga's border shut.

That was in March.

Harriet Robinson reports.