(Last Updated On: June 26, 2021) About 80 Afghan interpreters and their families have arrived in Australia on commercial flights after being granted a safe haven for their work alongside Australian troops in Afghanistan. According to the Guardian Australia, this comes after 41 interpreters wrote to the government twice earlier this year pleading for urgent help. It is understood most of the people listed on the letter are among those who have been able to escape the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. One interpreter, Tariq Zia, who is in hotel quarantine in Melbourne said: “I am safe now [and] I am feeling well,” he told the Guardian.