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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 ...
At age 16 he migrated to Australia under that country's assisted migration scheme. McLeod-Lindsay was a “ten pound pom”. In Australia McLeod-Lindsay was apprenticed in the printing trade and served in the Australian Citizens Military Forces, the then name of the Australian Army Reserve. In 1956 McLeod-Lindsay married Pamela Parsons, a nurse.
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His university degree was put on hold after an Australian colleague provided a sponsor that enabled Banks to migrate to Australia as part of the final stages of its Assisted Passage Migration Scheme; Andrew Banks arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1972 as a 'Ten Pound Pom'. [5]
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)