Thirty Years After The Fall Of Saigon: What Lessons Learnt?

Three decades ago, the US and Australia bailed out of an unpopular war, vowing it would never happen again.

Generation V

Thirty years after the fall of Saigon, the children of Vietnam's refugees embrace Australia as their own, but a candle still burns for the country their parents fled. Christopher Kremmer reports.

Australia And Refugees: The Slow Boat To Acceptance

WHEN the Kein Giang, a rickety wooden fishing boat chugged into sight of the northern coast of Australia on April 26, 1976, it signalled a fundamental change in Australian society. It was just four days short of a year since the fall of Saigon ended 30 years of civil war. Lam Binh, the 25-year-old captain, his 17-year-old brother Lam Tac Tam and their three friends were the first of 2000 refugees who made it all the way to Australia by boat from Vietnam. Most of the 55,000 refugees who were ...