Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

[by video link] My question is to Senator Birmingham, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Yesterday we saw reports of hundreds of former Australian embassy guards and their families left standing in sewage for hours outside Kabul airport. Glenn Kolomeitz, a former ADF officer, now lawyer, has said that Afghans attempting to flee Kabul who have been issued Australian electronic visas are 'being turned away by ADF people because they don't have a hard copy visa in their passports'. Are reports that Afghans with Australian visas are being turned away at the airport by Australian officials true?