Half a century after the Vietnam War ended, South Vietnamese veterans and refugees Le Quang Vinh and Thanh Nguyen recount their harrowing experiences of war, brutal re-education camps and perilous escapes by sea.
Le and his family were among the first wave of Vietnamese refugees welcomed into Australia under then-Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's humanitarian resettlement program in 1978.
It was a significant turning point in Australian history — coming just five years after the end of the White Australia Policy.