Fifty years since the sky fell: how the Vietnam war changed Australia

On the anniversary of Liberation Day, members of Australia's Vietnamese community look back at the sacrifices made in pursuit of a good life'

It's like the world collapsed," says Thi Xa Nguyen, looking back 50 years to the fall of Saigon.

She was living in the coastal town of Vng Tau where the soldiers of the southern Army of the Republic of Vietnam had retreated.

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