The end of the Vietnam War seared itself into the memories of those who witnessed it.
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Saigon Falls - 50 years on

The end of the Vietnam War seared itself into the memories of those who witnessed it.

  • Kate Geraghty

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The fall of Saigon saw hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees make Australia their home.

The hunted and haunted outcasts who changed their new country forever

They endured war,risked death and faced down pirates. And 50 years after they began to arrive in Australia,they have left a profound mark on their new home.

  • Kate Geraghty andMichael Ruffles
On the 50th anniversary of an Anzac Day like no other,the last Australian air force pilot to leave Vietnam speaks for the first time.
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John Fanderlinden flew the last plane out of Saigon on Anzac Day 1975

On the 50th anniversary of an Anzac Day like no other,the last Australian air force pilot to leave Vietnam speaks for the first time.

  • Kate Geraghty
RAAF Captain John Fanderlinden.

The untold story of the last Australian plane out of Saigon

On the 50th anniversary of an Anzac Day like no other,the last Australian air force pilot to leave Vietnam speaks for the first time.

  • Michael Ruffles andKate Geraghty
Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Sinytskyi reunited with daughter Yaroslava,14,and son Nikita,9,in suburban Sydney.

After 562 days of brutal torture,a soldier wasn’t prepared for what was waiting at Sydney Airport

A Ukrainian who spent a year and a half enduring “hell on earth” as a prisoner of war is returned to family in Sydney.

  • Kate Geraghty andMichael Ruffles
Manessa Ali,10,in the aftermath of the October 5 Israeli strike on Dahiyeh,a southern suburb of Beirut.

‘Nowhere is safe’:A photographer’s perspective on the Middle East conflict

Photographer Kate Geraghty returns to the Middle East to show the human toll of a conflict causing grief,loss and anger.

  • Kate Geraghty
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Heartbreak in Beirut

Beirut is a city you can’t help but love,even as it breaks your heart

Matthew Knott and Kate Geraghty have spent eight days in Beirut,where bullet-holes in palm trees among the glitzy restaurants tell the tale of a broken city.

  • Matthew Knott andKate Geraghty
In Kibbutz Be-eri,Australian Israeli Geoffrey “Danny” Majzner,62,sits in his bedroom which is also his safe room where he took shelter for 30 hours during the October 7 Hamas attack. Geoffrey’s sister Galit Carbone was killed by Hamas in her home a few streets away. Kibbutz Be-eri,Israel. October 4,2024. Photo:Kate Geraghty

They’re rebuilding after watching loved ones murdered. Rebuilding trust is more complicated

Before the October 7 attacks,Kibbutz Be’eri’s residents were among Israel’s most progressive. Now some find their hearts hardening.

  • Matthew Knott andKate Geraghty
On the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack,Rachel Moshe mourns her son Oz Ezra at his shrine at the site of the Nova music festival.

‘Why,Lord,why?’ The moment the music stopped

In the pre-dawn darkness,family and friends of the 364 people who were killed at the Nova music festival in Israel on October 7,2023,gathered to remember their loved ones.

  • Matthew Knott andKate Geraghty
Photographer Kate Geraghty

Into the conflict zone

As the world looks on in horror at events unfolding in the Middle East,Herald journalists Kate Geraghty and Matthew Knott,who have just arrived in Israel,talk about what it’s like to fly into a conflict zone.

  • Liam Phelan,Kate Geraghty andMatthew Knott