Vietnamese– Australian stories have attracted significant public interest in the last few years, particularly with the success of Anh Do's The Happiest Refugee (2010). When this book won a raft of Australian literary awards in 2011, it quickly became a bestseller and was selected for book-group discussions across the country. By the end of 2011 Do had been engaged by the Australian government's Department of Immigration to deliver a motivational speech to selected detention centre staff – with the view that his family's story of escape from Vietnam, their subsequent adaptation to migrant life and their eventual making good in Australia would provide department employees with ‘valuable insight on refugee issues and how people are accepted into the Australian community’ (Benson 2011). Also in 2011, Anh Do and his wife, Suzanne Do, co-authored a children's picture book, The Little Refugee (2012), which was distributed to schools throughout southwestern Sydney during Refugee Week in 2012, along with an activity kit for classroom use (Roads-to-Refuge 2012). Do, who was already well known through his numerous television appearances before publication of his book, had enormous success in 2012 with a two-episode television program, Anh Does Vietnam, its broadcast providing a sizable ratings boost for Channel 7 (Enker 2012; Vickery 2013). In the same year Do began touring a theatre adaptation of the stories from his book, titled The Happiest Refugee: Live (Hook 2012), which in 2014 made a second national tour. Since publication, The Happiest Refugee has sold over 150,000 copies, and there are now plans for a feature film based on the book, with Russell Crowe having secured the film rights (Steger 2011). This apparent enthusiasm by the Australian public for the narratives of a refugee family from Vietnam is in no small part because of Do's status and reputation as a comedian familiar to many Australians through television and film. While Do's popularity has made him a very successful media personality, even a celebrity, he is but one of many Vietnamese– Australians who have made their mark on Australian life.