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There’s ‘literally a war’ – but in Kabul, not Sydney

17 August 2021

4:00 AM

17 August 2021

4:00 AM

At her daily press briefing on Saturday, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said: ‘This is literally a war, and we’ve known we’ve been in a war for some time but never to this extent’. While she was interacting with the media, the Taliban were making lightning advances across Afghanistan in a real war.

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