Afghans with Australian visas are being told to stay away from Kabul airport after Australian soldiers were just hours from being caught up in a terror attack.
Scenes of chaos at the airport were very real. They also provided a powerful metaphor for the haphazard and humiliating end to the US-led war in Afghanistan.
Desperate Afghan nationals say the already perilous journey to the city’s airport through Taliban checkpoints is becoming more dangerous.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Afghans who try to get to Australia by boat will not be accepted,as the government works on a larger refugee intake for Afghanistan.
A rescue mission to evacuate stranded Australians and Afghans in Kabul started today with 26 people evacuated on what Scott Morrison says was the first of “many flights”.
A top Afghan diplomat has launched an urgent appeal for asylum in Australia.
Australia is desperately trying to negotiate a landing spot at Kabul airport to rescue hundreds of Australians and Afghans after the Taliban captured the capital.
Soon after withdrawing its troops,Australia is contemplating sending diplomatic and intelligence officers back to Afghanistan. China’s keen interest in the region may be the key to understanding this.
The minister in charge of the National Archives says it has to deal with the disintegration of its records even as the institution warns parts of Australia’s history cannot be saved.
Kevin Hynes believes he is the only living person to have seen a pilot crash a wartime-era plane into Victoria’s biggest inland lake decades ago.
Australia will ship tens of thousands of locally manufactured AstraZeneca vaccines from its Melbourne plant to Papua New Guinea and East Timor within weeks,with both countries battling major outbreaks of the virus.