Reliving History is a special series of Good Weekend Talks hosted by Kamilaroi journalist, Ella Archibald-Binge, which revisits key moments in Australian history through the eyes of First Nations people who lived them. In 1972, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam declared that all Australian soldiers in Vietnam would be home by Christmas. Unbeknownst to the public, however, 28 men were left behind. Among them was Goreng Goreng man Noel Pope, who talks about the experience.

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