The Vietnamese government has agreed to allow restricted access to the Long Tan Cross site with strict conditions. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten, veteran’s minister Dan Tehan, Malcolm Turnbull and governer-general Sir Peter Cosgrove at Thursday’s ceremony in Canberra. The Vietnam Veterans’ Association of Australia’s national president, Ken Foster, worries the news might not filter through to veterans who are busy getting ready for their own commemorations. “So there’s going to be potentially some fallout from this.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Australians at the Long Tan Cross in 2011. Australia lost 521 troops in Vietnam including 18 at Long Tan, and their names and ages of death were read out in a honour roll call earlier on Thursday morning.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2016 21:51 UTC