I supported Australia’s Vietnam commitment in the decade between 1965 (when the Menzies Coalition government deployed combat forces to South Vietnam) and 1975 (when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army). As a university student and later an academic during this period, this was a distinctly unfashionable position to hold.
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Gerard Henderson is executive director of the Sydney Institute and a columnist at the Weekend Australian.
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