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SBS50: Looking back at Operation Babylift, Vietnam's mass evacuation of children and babies to Australia

Published 7 April 2025, 5:45 am
This month will mark 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. It was also the beginning of one of Australia's most significant post-war migrations. To service the nation's growing migrant communities, SBS started broadcasting in-language radio programs in the same year; 1975. At the same time an extraordinary rescue operation was taking place — the evacuation of babies and children from Vietnamese orphanages who were brought to Australia in "Operation Babylift". This story produced in collaboration with SBS Vietnamese.
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