Calling Australia home: stories of Australia's boat people

By Hannah Craft
Updated November 24 2016 - 9:08pm, first published 8:39pm
Former Vietnamese asylum seeker Lam Tac Tam in Darwin. Inset: Lam Tac with the four  other Vietnamese boat people with whom he arrived in Darwin in 1976. Photo: UNHCR and Fairfax Media
Former Vietnamese asylum seeker Lam Tac Tam in Darwin. Inset: Lam Tac with the four other Vietnamese boat people with whom he arrived in Darwin in 1976. Photo: UNHCR and Fairfax Media

In April 1976 a battered 15-metre fishing boat docked in Darwin, carrying five young Vietnamese men who would become Australia's first boat people.

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