From ABC Radio Brisbane:
It's been 18 months since Anne last saw her grandchildren.
"They're never far from my mind, in any situation," she says.
The Brisbane woman had a falling out with their mother, her daughter, when the children were just a couple of years old.
Since then, Anne's daughter has barred her from seeing the kids.
"My family was very important to me … and I spent a lot of my life as a lot of mums do making sure it went well for my children. And to find now that there's disrespect and [a] break down in communication is difficult," Anne said.
It's a situation faced by many grandparents around Australia, who are cut off from their grandchildren through divorce of the parents, custody issues, or estrangements from their own adult child.
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