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Up until 1975 there were fewer than 2,000 Vietnam-born people in Australia. [5] Following the takeover of South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese communist government in April 1975, Australia, being a signatory to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, agreed to resettle its share of Vietnam-born refugees under a refugee resettlement plan between 1975 and 1985.
Le arrived in Australia in 1979 as a refugee of the Vietnam War after fleeing Saigon in April 1975 and spending four years with her family in refugee camps in the Philippines and Hong Kong. [4] She became an ABC journalist and politician, and was named as one of the 100 most influential Australian women in 2014. [5]
Refugees are governed by statutes and government policies which seek to implement Australia's obligations under the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, to which Australia is a party. Thousands of refugees have sought asylum in Australia over the past decade, [1] with the main forces driving movement being war, civil unrest and ...
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Zohra Daoud – former Afghani actress and model, now settled in Malibu, California; Omid Djalili – comedian and actor. He and his family are Iranian refugees; Anh Do – Australian comedian, Anh Do and his family fled in a boat to Australia as refugees in 1980; Ben Elton – comedian and grandson of a Czechoslovakian refugee
Le Nguyen was born in as Lê Thiện Toàn [1] Sa Đéc, Mekong Delta, Vietnam on 3 October 1968. [2] In 1978, Le-Nguyen and his family migrated from Vietnam to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, as refugees, when he was ten years old. [3] In 1985 he changed his name to Tony Lee as he began working as an actor.
Cecile Pin's debut novel, 'Wandering Souls,' injects the supernatural into the deeply grounded story of three orphaned siblings who escape Vietnam by boat.