They risked their lives for Australia. We left them behind in Afghanistan

Podcast: Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald · ABC Australia

Opublikowano: 2026-09-29

Four years after Kabul fell, hundreds of Afghans who worked for the Australian Defence Force, diplomats and NGOs are still waiting on promised visas, while facing lethal risk. Waleed Aly and Hamish Macdonald speak to security consultant Dr Tony Murney and Azadi-e Zan's Susan Hutchinson, both of whom have spent years trying to get Australia's locally engaged employees to safety, about the human cost of a promise made by several successive governments and, they argue, broken by all of them. Plus, how Canada is leading the world in sponsoring refugees, and how Australia's current political c...