DARWIN REFUGEES FLASHBACK

Pictorial coverage of  boats carrying  Vietnamese refugees  in  Darwin  back in the l970s is included in a book which will  be launched  tomorrow at the Maritime Museum  in Sydney. The event was  captured by Mike Jensen , a top cameraman employed by the Australian News and Information Bureau, when he was based in Darwin. The book covers 100 major maritime events in Australia. Little Darwin spoke to Jensen in Canberra as he prepared to fly to Sydney for the launch .  Discussing the arrival of the boats in  Darwin  and how he came to take the  photographs, Jensen commented that  nothing much had changed on the refugee  front since then, boats still coming. The photographs he took at  the time had  been widely used  throughout  the  nation.