It's a decision no daughter should be forced to make - miss your father's funeral or face two weeks of mandatory hotel quarantine, at your own cost, in the midst of your grief.

But that's the heartbreaking decision Bec Reardon and her sister Hayley Peachey are currently facing following the recent death of their father Barry Peachey.

Barry sadly passed away in Moree on Sunday, August 16 and while his beloved wife Georgie was able to be by his side, his two daughters Bec and Hayley were unable to say a final goodbye as they both live on the other side of the Queensland border in Toowoomba.

When Barry was placed in palliative care, Bec and Hayley applied for an exemption to come to NSW to be with him in his final days and then be able to return the four hours home to Toowoomba via road.

However, Bec found out the exemption was granted the day after her dad had passed away.

"It was too late," she said.

"In a time when family and loved ones should be coming together for support, our mum is separated from her only two daughters because we live in Queensland. What is already an emotional and stressful time, has only been exacerbated by the border restrictions.

"Instead of grieving and finding comfort with our relatives, and helping with funeral arrangements, I have been online applying for border exemptions, getting letters from the medical centre, escalating exemption requests with Queensland Health, making phone calls to state and federal MPs for both Toowoomba and Moree regions.

"It's so heartbreaking," Bec said."Burying our father shouldn't be this traumatic, it is a basic right," Bec said.

"We never got the opportunity to say one last goodbye to our dad, we were denied being able to be at his bedside during his final time, but we cannot stay quiet and be denied the one and only chance we have to lay him to rest. Please show us some compassion."

Bec and Hayley are not alone.

Moree's Tammy Elbourne's son Josh, 17, the eldest of three children, injured himself playing rugby and she and her husband Jason are unable to get to Brisbane to be with him.

"The moment you see your son being taken away to hospital in an ambulance with a serious injury and you're not there is bad enough for any parent but to then quickly realise you're not allowed to go to him and be with him at all, your world just suddenly stops for a moment and our hearts sank," Mrs Elbourne said.

Josh, a year 12 student at a boarding school in Brisbane, was due to sit his HSC trial exams on Monday. Instead, he underwent surgery to have pins and screws put in his leg and ankle on Wednesday morning after he completely dislocated his ankle and broke his lower leg during the accident on Saturday.

Urgent requests for exemptions to cross the Queensland border to be with their son are yet to receive any form of response.

"The last 20 hours have proven impossible for us to even speak to someone within the Queensland exemptions department," Mrs Elbourne said in a Facebook post on Sunday.

"We have been told it would take longer than 48 hours to even get an answer either way. We have made multiple phone calls to border police, Queensland Health, several emails and permits sent. And still not even a response. This is unnecessary heartache."

Michelle and Phill Eulenstein, who farm a property halfway between Moree and Goondiwindi. should be getting excited as they prepare to harvest their sunflower crop, bringing their first income in three years following the drought.

Instead, they've been left scrambling to find experienced workers to help them get their crop off in time, now that their three usual casuals have been all but cut off from entering NSW amid the hard Queensland border closure.

"It's been really overwhelming and extremely draining," Mrs Eulenstein said.

However, all three of their casual staff members live on the other side of the border in Toowoomba, including Phill's dad who is semi-retired but still comes back to help on the farm.

While the workers would be able to drive across the border for the harvest this week, a Queensland government official told Mrs Eulenstein that to return home they would have to fly from Moree to Sydney and then to Brisbane where they would be required to do two weeks of hotel quarantine, all at their own expense.

"So basically they'd be working for nothing if they had to pay for all of that," Mrs Eulenstein said.

"So now we have a week to find three experienced staff members to get our sunflowers off in time.

"How do you find three experienced people just sitting around? We've been trying to look for a full-time staff member since Phil's dad moved on and we've been doing that for six weeks and haven't found anybody. How can you find three experienced staff in a week?"

Mrs Eulenstein spent three days on the phone trying to find out if they'd be eligible for some leniency, however was told exemptions would take two weeks to be approved.

"We didn't have that time to wait. It's really crucial that we hook in straight away, otherwise the quality starts to deteriorate the longer you leave it in the ground."

Reduced quality means a significant financial loss.

In the hope of finding workers at short notice, the Eulensteins have enlisted the help of a recruitment agency in Moree - at a cost of $1500 per staff member.

However, if that avenue is unsuccessful, the Eulensteins will be relying on the generosity of their neighbours and friends to help them get their crop off this week.

The Eulensteins will also be using the recruitment agency to find four casual harvest workers to help with their winter crop harvest in the next few months, but that's another $6000.

"It's just baffling that agriculture is not considered essential and we're just about to go into this enormous harvest," Mrs Eulenstein said.

"Phill's parents did a remarkable job preparing and getting us through the last three years of drought. How are we meant to plan for this though? All farming activities are time-critical and essential and that should be reflected in a federal plan for pandemics."

NSW Agriculture Minister and Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall has been calling for the designated border bubble to be redefined and expanded to include Local Government Areas, after he has been contacted by hundreds of people who have been impacted by the recent border closure.

A 25-week pregnant mum and her son, who has a broken arm, has been denied access to their Queensland doctors.

It all comes down to having the wrong postcode.

Meg and Rowen Tighe live "smack bang half way between Goondiwindi and Moree" at "Bonnie Downs", 10km from Croppa Creek.

Meg is 25-weeks pregnant and receives antenatal care in Goondiwindi.

She planned to have her baby in Goondiwindi. Or at least she did.

New Queensland border restrictions which are decided by postcode means that Meg can no longer enter Goondiwindi or Queensland.

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The situation has become even worse after her son Jack, 9, was involved in an accident which broke his arm two weeks ago.

Initially they contacted a Tamworth orthopedic clinic for advice.

But, "to date we are still waiting on a call back," Meg said.

The Tighes use Goondiwindi as their main centre for health services.

"With the struggle of getting medical appointments in Moree we go to Goondiwindi," she said.

Unable to get quick access to treatment in NSW, the family was able to get in to see a specialist in Brisbane.

"He underwent surgery and is due to go back to see the surgeon next Tuesday; now we can't get across the border," Meg said.

And it doesn't stop there.

"Our farming business relies on services of both Moree and Goondiwindi.

"The most ridiculous thing of course is you are missing the fact that many rural farming communities spend practically 12 months of the year in isolation, yet now we are tarnished with the same brush as those in actual city hotspots.

"We don't go to the grocery shop every day, we shop once a fortnight generally, only go to town for the necessities, yet here we are being excluded from those services."

Meg has written to the Queensland Chief Medical Officer, Dr Jeannette Young expressing her concerns.

"Take a drive out and see where our communities lie and the services provided. You city folk don't realise what is at your finger tips, farming is not a lifestyle to us, it's our career and it keeps food on everyone's table," she said in the letter.