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