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Other musical artists to have migrated to Australia under the scheme include John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes. John Paul Young, Colin Hay of Men at Work, [24] Jon English and Cheetah, while Kylie Minogue is the daughter of two Ten Pound Poms: her mother was on the same boat as the Gibbs and Red Symons. [25]
This was the era of "populate or perish" [2] and the Federal Government sought to increase the population of Australia by campaigns to encourage, through "assisted passage" schemes, migrants from the United Kingdom. However, insufficient Britons took up the opportunity and so Australia opened its doors to more migrants from non-British sources.
Ten Pound Poms is a British historical drama television series created by Danny Brocklehurst for BBC One and Stan. The series stars Michelle Keegan, Faye Marsay and Warren Brown as Ten Pound Poms, British citizens who migrated to Australia after the Second World War. The series premiered on 14 May 2023 on BBC One and has six episodes. [1]
The co-production between the U.K.’s BBC and the Australian streaming service Stan follows a group of Brits […] Why ‘Ten Pound Poms’ Stars Can Relate to Homesick Brits in 1950s Australia ...
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Ten Pound Pom was a slang term to describe British citizens who migrated to Australia and New Zealand after world war II Kaycies 16:15, 29 June 2023 (UTC) Congratulations. That’s a concise summary of the article's first sentence. Schwede 66 17:45, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
Newspapers in Australia were using the term by 1912, with it appearing first in Western Australia, and was said to be short for pomegranate, with the terms "jimmy" and "jimmigrant" also in use. [10] [11] [12] The term Ten-pound Pom refers to British (subsidized) migrants to Australia and New Zealand after World War II.
He retired from first-class cricket in 1960 and emigrated to Australia as a ten-pound pom, as his hero Harold Larwood had done ten years earlier. "It had struck me while I was over there that it was a wonderful country to bring up a family, with the open spaces, the climate and the job opportunities". [ 49 ]