Trí was born in a family of four brothers and two sisters in South Vietnam. In 1980, he left Vietnam with his big brother Tâm when he was just eight. The boat engines failed, leaving them drifting aimlessly for seventeen days…
As a young nun in the religious Order of the Holy Cross, Sister Elizabeth Nghia arrived in Australia in 1976 as one of the “boat people”, having been forced to flee her homeland in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. It is an astonishing story of survival and faith in the face of impossible odds.
In 1975 we saw the beginning of the settlement of Vietnamese refugees and over the thirty years since then the face of Australia has changed. The arrival of the Vietnamese refugees marked a major…
Tung became the first Vietnamese Australian to be elected to South Australia’s Parliament in 2014. At that time, he was the only person with Vietnamese heritage in any Parliament in Australia.…