What is the effect of Australia's withdrawal from Afghanistan?

What is the effect of Australia's withdrawal from Afghanistan? What price have Australians paid for this? Are some of the questions Kulasegaram Sanchayan posed to Karthik Velu, a Sydney resident and a keen observer of world-politics.

Evacuees from Afghanistan disembarking a Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules at Australia’s main operating base in the Middle East.(AAP) Inset: Karthik Velu Source: LACW Jacqueline Forrester / AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE via AAP

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