Vietnam's Immigration To Australia

A few years after the war ended, a group of five men on a fishing boat arrived in Darwin from Vietnam escaping the communist regime. This was the start of the ‘boat people’. This influx from Vietnam managed to change the modern face of Australia. When this first boat arrived, it was just a few years after the ‘White Australian Policy’ had been abandoned, so it was a big step for them to accept these immigrants. After this, a lot of families risked their lives to make it to Australia. After they had arrived, more and more started coming, the Australian government couldn’t risk everyone entering the country so they had refugee camps set up. Many of the refugees ended up in the camps and stayed there for multiple years before being allowed to