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Read More »Australia’s ‘Boat People’: Then and now
Max Walden SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS In late April 1976, a small fishing boat carrying five young Vietnamese refugees sailed into Darwin harbor. Although representing the arrival of Australia’s first “boat people,†the Kein Giang’s landing on Australian shores barely made the newspaper. Boat arrivals during 1976 and 1977 were largely met with similar indifference by the national media ...
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