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Australians Parade for the End of Military Operation in Afghanistan

Parades under the hashtag #OpSLIPPER were held in Sydney and other parts of Australia on Saturday, March 21, to mark the end of the country’s military operation in Afghanistan. Operation Slipper, with more than 33,000 members of the Australian Defence Force involved, was launched in 2001 in response to the 9/11 attacks that shook the US and the world.

Prime Minister Toby Abbott spoke at a memorial service held in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, saying, “That war ended not with victory, and not with defeat, but with hope, hope for a better Afghanistan, and for a safer world.”

This video shows the parade in Sydney on March 21. Credit: Twitter/Eamon Hamilton