Four more RAAF flights have rescued Australians and Afghans from Kabul in recent hours, bringing the total number of evacuees so far to 2,700.
However, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has warned the situation in the Afghanistan capital is worsening on an “hourly basis”.
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Walter James
says:Too little too late. Should have started evacuations when or before the embassy was closed our inaction makes me ashamed to be Australian, something I would never have expected to hear myself say. Morrison and his entire cabinet should be forced to watch the ABC Programme 4 Corners regarding the Vietnamese boat people MG 99 rescued in 1975.
Bill O Really
says:Exactly. Like everything Morrison has done since this contagion arrived, it is done as an afterthought, on the cheap and too late. It was only Labors insistence that income support be given that made him cave in. New ‘immigration isolation facilities’, oh no, too hard. Finally now slowly moving on that. Now this last minute schmozzle, putting brave ADF members at risk and those who previously helped us possibly missing the boat. Now DFAT tells them NOT to go to the airport. Thanks SFM, too little, too late, all the way with every issue he deals with.
David Martindale
says:I saw that it was brilliant
David WW Olley
says:Well done RAAF and all of the ADF for carrying out this job so well.
Marum Katze
says:We had prior experience in Vietnam, with a huge evacuation effort. I would have thought that, this time, the logistics would have been better thought out, and better organized,
When politicians run the show, history always seems to repeat itself.
Congratulations to our military personnel, once more, they have to pick up the pieces of a total SNAFU. The world will never change, until we stop old men sending young men off to fight, for their dreams of glory.
Good luck, and stay safe, boys/girls of the ADF….Marum Katze.
John
says:Well done to all Defence Forces and other Australians involved in this evacuation.
I am sure proceedings were being undertaken before the US made a mess of things.
I am proud to be an Australian and ex RAAF serving member.
AlanH
says:Yes the RAAF are doing the best they can in trying circumstances, but what is it with the weasel words that the evacuees are being taken to “the RAAF’s main operating base in the Middle East”? It’s Dubai! We all know that. Why not just say it? The Government-imposed double-speak is an absolute joke and an insult!