Alex Hawke tidying up Morrison’s failure to act when necessary. How will Australia settle Afghans they simply left behind. Australia’s shameful claim was “they didn’t have the papers”? The very papers this government withheld in the face of an emergency they knew that was coming.
Australia will prioritise more than 15,000 Afghan refugees through its humanitarian and family reunion programs over the next four years amid claims it has been “dishonourable” by leaving hundreds of interpreters and other citizens at high risk of brutal reprisals from the Taliban.Federal Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said on Friday the government would resettle Afghans with links to Australia as either former locally engaged employees or employees of Australian non-government organisations as well as women and girls, ethnic minorities and LGBTQI+ citizens.
Source: Australia opens more places for Afghan refugees after scathing report