CANBERRA, ACT, March 22 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
Xin chao.
I want to particularly welcome and acknowledge the veterans of the Vietnamese community.
You showed such courage in leaving the land of your birth to create a better life and freedom for yourselves, but also for the generations to come.
And I thank you for your courage, your resilience, and I acknowledge the sacrifice that you have made.
I come from Sydney, where in my local community of Marrickville, there's a very large Vietnamese Australian community.
And one of the things about the Vietnamese Australian community that is synonymous, whether it be here in Melbourne, or be in Sydney or Brisbane, or every part of this great land o...