Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Vietnamese community

Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (14:57): The City of Greater Dandenong is the second-largest Vietnamese community in Victoria, with 17,653 people. I had the privilege of speaking at the Vietnamese flag-raising ceremony in Dandenong recently, reflecting on the importance of remembering the cost of standing up for our personal freedoms and celebrating the brave stories of our beautiful Vietnamese Victorians who migrated, as refugees many of them, during the Liberal Fraser government’s multiracial migration and refugee policy, which opened the doors to over 80,000 Vietnamese into Australia.