Many of our Bundaberg residents are from different countries and one of them is David Duong from South Vietnam.
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We will let him tell you his story.
“I escaped Vietnam in a boat with 22 other people.
We spent three days crammed together in this boat before we reached Thailand. I stayed in Thailand for two years.
I arrived in Australia as a refugee and lived in Melbourne before coming to Bundaberg, where my friends and I own a farm on Ashfield Road.
I sell my produce at various farmers markets, including Gin Gin, Hervey Bay, Gladstone and Gympie.
Ninety-eight per cent of the customers who buy from my roadside stall are honest, but I’ve had others break into my money box with hammers and even a chainsaw!
I don’t remember the Vietnam War because I was very young, but my family tell me horrific stories.
I return to Vietnam regularly to visit my family, but Bundaberg is now my home.”