Foreign Minister Marise Payne has broken down and shown a rare glimpse of emotion in the Senate as she revealed the first person to step off an Australian evacuation flight from Kabul last week was a young Afghan boy who “skipped down the ramp”.
An emotional Senator Payne described more key details of the evacuation mission from Kabul last week which landed near Dubai before moving on to Australia.
So far more than one thousand Australians and Afghan visa holders have been rescued after escaping Afghanistan, which the Taliban now controls.
In the last 24 hours, over 450 people from Kabul were evacuated on four ADF flights, including Australian and New Zealand citizens, UK evacuees, Afghan locally engaged employees and visa holders.
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Senator Payne was visibly moved as she described the first person to step off the RAAF flight, a young Afghani boy, “was a compelling and important…