Former prime minister John Howard says Australia bears a moral responsibility to help Afghan interpreters and other staff who worked with Australian agencies.
John Howard has said “Where it is clearly the case that they could be in danger of retribution, we have an obligation to help them if necessary, by giving them visas to come to live in Australia.”
“That is a moral obligation we have. And it was a moral obligation that was shamefully discarded many years ago when we pulled out of Vietnam."
The United States has already begun measures in what the White House dubbed Operation Allies Refuge, with interpreters and their families to be resettled in the United States or elsewhere.