Emotional road trip from Brisbane ends in u-turn as Brisbane lockdown looms

People travelling interstate from Brisbane for the first time in months have been caught up in the three day lockdown.

Brendan Ryan made it halfway to Sydney and was at Forster on the New South Wales north coast when he got the news.

He'd decided to head south to visit his elderly mother who he hasn't seen since late 2019 because of last year's border restrictions.

Brendan Ryan spoke with his brother, the ABC's senior business correspondent Peter Ryan just before he made a u-turn,