The aftermath for Australia (dec 1, 1976 – dec 1, 1986)

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The nations where the refugees eventually settled were impacted by the flight from Indochina. 94,000 refugees from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam landed in Australia over a ten-year period beginning in 1976. 2,000 people arrived by boat. For a nation that had just a short while ago upheld the White Australia Policy, accepting tens of thousands of Asian refugees represented a significant step forwards. There hadn't been a significant influx of Asians into Australia since the large-scale migration of Chinese during the nineteenth-century goldrushes.

Indochinese refugees did not make up a sizable portion of the population, but they were fresh and noticeable. Smaller regions of the nation, like Sydney's Cabramatta, underwent significant transformation as a result of their presence. Today, there are about 155,000 Australians of Vietnamese descent living there.

Physical infrastructure on both sides of the North/South border had been devastated, leaving Vietnam after the war in ruins. Approximately 3.5 million people died in Vietnam between 1957, the year after elections aimed to unite the nation were unsuccessful, and 1972, when the South was left to carry on the war without the assistance of foreign ground forces. Of these deaths, 60,000 were Americans and 521 were Australians.

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