Afghan refugee in ADF gives dawn service speech the political class spent twenty years arguing against

Sky News Australia · Saturday 25 April 2026

Afghan refugee in ADF gives dawn service speech the political class spent twenty years arguing against

The first Afghan refugee in the Australian Defence Force delivered the Anzac dawn service address, settling more about Australian identity in one speech than two decades of political debate managed.

An Afghan kid the system spent two decades arguing about now wears the uniform and gives the Anzac speech. The whole national debate about who gets to be Australian, settled at dawn by a bloke in service dress while the politicians were still working out their press releases. Worth more than every border slogan of the last twenty years combined.

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