No sorry I donated to Red Cross for a local bushfires thing a couple of yrs ago and some of the people are still waiting for help

Afghanistan received help for the last 20 years or more. Its time our Government put all its limited funds to help its own citizens. We DO NOT need to worry about Afghanistan, it is under the protection of Allah.

The Americans etc have left behind in incredible amount of guns etc it will be a big bonus for the taliban.  Id like to know when our government and those around the world ( Including the U.N ) are going to care about other issues like homelessness etc 

Do you think the Australian government should be doing more to help the situation in Afghanistan? DEFINITELY NOT! The West has been helping them for 20 years to teach them to help themselves. It is now up to them and allah.

We are doing our bit in Perth...

A group of about 100 evacuees who fled the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan are in hotel quarantine in Perth after arriving in Australia overnight.

They have been taken to a hotel in Perth's CBD to quarantine

A number of floors at the hotel were set aside for their arrival

The evacuees were on a chartered aircraft that landed in Perth about 1:30am, following a 10-and-a-half-hour flight from Australia's military base in the United Arab Emirates. 

Those on board included Afghan interpreters and contractors who assisted Australian Defence Force troops during Australia's 20-year mission in the nation.

Also on the flight were Australian customs and immigration personnel as well as consular and foreign service officers.

We are a very welcoming lot in WA....we don't think too much about how much it will affect pensions!!!

Humanity comes first.

Anybody who thinks that the Taliban will allow any western aid agency wander around within Afghanistan providing assistance to the locals has to be soft in the head.

The way it looks from here is that the Red Cross will take in $millions from altruistic westerners and then spend most of it in management and administration everywhere except Afghanistan.  What does get to Kabul will be going straight into the hands of the warlords with nothing left where needed.

The Taliban will do what the Taliban want to do regardless of any intent to help those in need from western NGOs.

The Australian Defence Force members spent a lot of time and effort trying to build up infrastructure that would benefit the local communities but the local Taliban would ensure that anyone who tried to use it paid an extreme price.

I can't believe that our (all of NATO's) intelligence services were so dumb as to think the Taliban wouldn't takeover as fast as they did. Blind Freddy could have told them to start evacuating weeks ago!