Lachlan Bennett
Journalist at ABC News (Australia)
Journalist/videographer/human currently working at ABC’s Asia Pacific Newsroom ... amid other capers. Got a story? [email protected] Views are my own
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Lachlan Bennett
Nyssa has never been to China. She hasn't even stepped foot in Chinatown. But when the 6-year-old is with friends at school, she speaks Chinese. "It's like I know how to speak every language in the world," she said. Nyssa studies at a "bilingual school", where staff and students jump between languages in the classroom and the playground. And these institutions — both public and private — are not just for migrants.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Lachlan Bennett
Today marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon - the moment when North Vietnamese forces overran the capital, marking the end of the Vietnam War. While Australian troops withdrew years before, Australian pilots were called in during the final days of the war to help evacuate Vietnamese orphans and key personnel. Now, some of them are recounting their harrowing experiences - and a warning this story contains content some may find distressing.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Lachlan Bennett
There were not meant to be any Australians in Vietnam in 1975. Public outrage — and a tenuous peace treaty — paved the way for the withdrawal of troops in 1973. But the two-decade fight over the future of Vietnam wasn't over and without its international allies, the capitalist south rapidly fell to the communist north. City after city was captured and by the end of April, the capital Saigon was surrounded.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Lachlan Bennett
They found one while digging the foundations of a new hotel. Another was discovered in the middle of a park. A family spotted one in their garden. And Ho Van Lai and his cousins found several in the sand dunes, strange, rusted objects, no larger than a tennis ball. "I was just a 10-year-old boy, I was reckless," Lai said through a translator. Lai was playing with something that can be found across Vietnam: cluster munitions.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Lachlan Bennett
The Robodebt scheme is remembered as one of the biggest public policy scandals in modern Australia but there are fears history could repeat itself across the Tasman. New Zealand's conservative government is currently trying to expand the use of "automated decision-making" in the welfare system as part of a concerted effort to rein in public spending.
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