Why did Australia get involved in the Vietnam War? Has the involvement soured relations with South-East Asia?
Australia got involved because we feared ‘the domino affect’. That is one nation after another falling to communism until Australia was directly affected. I don’t believe the Vietnam involvement has been negative for Australia’s reputation in SE Asia, because at the time, most SE Asian nations feared communism even more than Australia did. Post Cold War many younger people do not realise what a threat communism presented to the World up until the 1990s.
