The refugee who became a GP to 'help everyone'

Dr Huy Tran has told SBS Small Business Secrets about becoming a refugee following the fall of Saigon, and his new life in Australia.

Dr Huy Tran, who came to Australia as a refugee from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon Source: SBS Small Business Secrets

Huy Tran's father was a senior official in Vietnam's Reserve Bank - but in April 1975, the family’s comfortable life collapsed when the Communist party took over the country, and they found themselves without a home, without belongings, and with only each other for support. In this interview, he tells SBS Small Business Secrets' Lin Evlin about how he and his family fled from Vietnam in a boat that was barely seaworthy, facing potentially deadly storms and pirates along the way, and reflects on how different Australia's response to people who arrived by boat was back then.