A barrister acting for war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has suggested the decorated former soldier did not threaten to shoot a fellow soldier,as has been alleged in the Federal Court.
High-ranking officials are sending their children to overseas state schools and universities despite removing millions of girls from schooling since they seized power in Afghanistan.
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says millions of Afghans are suffering extreme hunger and that education and social services are on the brink of collapse.
The federal government has failed to address an urgent need for an expansion of protective resettlement for Afghans who are in imminent danger from the Taliban regime.
The federal government has said it will allocate 15,000 places over four years to Afghan nationals,but the places will come from within existing humanitarian and family visa channels.
A parliamentary report claims the government has been “dishonourable” by leaving hundreds of interpreters and other citizens at high risk of brutal reprisals from the Taliban.
Since sweeping to power in mid-August,the Taliban have imposed widespread restrictions,including on the women’s rights and the right to protest.
Sohail Ahmadi was just two months old when he went missing in the chaos when thousands tried to flee the Taliban takeover.
The US is investigating what happened to $200 billion of aid for Afghanistan. In his first interview since fleeing the palace,Ashraf Ghani says he left with nothing.
Members of the Afghan women’s national team were forced to flee their homes after the fall of Kabul but they are back on the pitch in Australia,aspiring to turn professional.
Amir Khan Muttaqi says the Taliban government wants good relations with all countries and has no issue with the US,and he’d like $US10m released.