‘Tragic’ delays: documents reveal Australia knew time was running out to extract Afghan staff

Exclusive: Previously secret papers show charter flight considered ‘high risk’ a month before Kabul fell to Taliban

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The Australian government was warned in mid-July that the worsening security situation in Afghanistan and Covid restrictions were making it “extremely difficult” to help former Afghan employees escape the country, previously secret documents reveal.

At least five weeks before the Afghan capital fell to the Taliban in mid-August, government officials predicted more people would seek to flee the country and they were discussing the possibility of chartering direct flights from Kabul to Australia.

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