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Italian Family

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Curriculum-linked learning resources for primary and secondary school teachers and students. Videos, games and interactives covering English, maths, history, science and more!

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Ten Pound Pom - Clip 6/6

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Ten Pound Pom - Clip 5/6

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Ten Pound Pom - Clip 4/6

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Ten Pound Pom - Clip 3/6

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Ten Pound Pom - Clip 2/6

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A series of four UK television advertisements promoting passage to Australia for 10 pounds. This wave of British migrants became known as 'Ten pound poms'. The slogan for the commercials is 'Australia - brings out the best in you'.

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Ten Pound Pom - Clip 1/6

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TEN POUND POMS | Western Australia | www.wanowandthen.com

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Ten Pound Poms

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More than one and a half million Britons left for Australia in the quarter century following the Second World War. Most of the migrants came under an assisted passage scheme through which adults travelled to Australia for just £10 whilst children travelled free. These British immigrants comprised one of the largest planned planned migrations of the twentieth century, and they become known to most Australians as the "ten pound Poms" (the term was misleading since, as Scottish and Welsh migrants are quick to insist, the word 'Pom", whether used in a derogatory or affectionate sense, refers to English migrants exclusively).

Throughout the postwar period more Australian immigrants came from Britain than from any other country (it was not until 1996 that Britain was pushed into second place by settlers from New Zealand) and though Australia's massive postwar immigration scheme included large numbers of migrants from other, non-English speaking countries, through the 1950s and 1960s the British comprised never less than a third, and at times more than a half of all settler arrivals.

And yet the British were to become 'invisible migrants' in a number of ways. The British had controlled and dominated the European settlement of Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and thus ensured the predominance of the English language and the adaptation of Australian cultural and political life to British ways. It was assumed that twentieth-century British immigrants would assimilate easily and thus 'disappear' into such a familiar society.

Immigration Minister Harold Holt claimed in 1950 "this is a British community, and we want to keep it a British community'. It was assumed that the British migrants would fit easily into Australia's "British Way of Life".

Many Asturias passengers kept a diary of their voyage to Australia from the UK, or have since written an account of their trip and experiences when they arrived in Australia. Their stories can be read in our Passenger Stories section.

*Source: Ten Pound Poms - Australia's Invisible Migrants by A James Hammerton and Alistair Thomson.

[Courtesy Les Malton, Melbourne, Aus]

Visit this extensive website dedicated to Australia's immigration history, in particular 'ten pound poms'.

Full of interesting facts, forums and photos .....

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More than one and a half million Britons left for Australia in the quarter century following the Second World War. Most of the migrants came under an assisted passage scheme through which adults travelled to Australia for just £10 whilst children travelled free.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Ten Pound Poms (or Ten Pound tourists) is a colloquial term used in Australia and New Zealand to describe British citizens who migrated to Australia and New Zealand after the Second World War. The Government of Australia initiated the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme in 1945, and the Government of New Zealand initiated a similar scheme in July 1947.

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Through New Eyes - Australia's Immigration in the 1900's

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Episode from the 1999 TV series Our Century, presented by Ray Martin. This story deals with the migrants that came to Australia in the 1900's to start a new life. Their contributions & hard work helped Australia grow more prosperous & most adapted well to their new environment.

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Saigon, Vietnam April 28th, 1959 Dear Diary, My name is Saige Le and i am 9 years old. I live in Vietnam in a small house with my twin (Martha), my younger sister (Kaylan),...

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Origins: History of immigration from Greece - Immigration Museum, Melbourne Australia

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The Making of Modern Australia.

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Luisine - an Italian migration story.

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Famous Roskies Family Immigration Stories

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Reasons to Hope

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Refugee Stories

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War has forced millions of families to flee their homes. This is the most urgent story of our time. Join UNHCR and share your story

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Where do Australia's Refugees come from?

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Calling Australia Home

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Calling Australia Home - immigration documentary

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History of Immigration

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Migration Programme Report

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Brisbane Immigrants

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Where Australia's immigrants were born: Brisbane | SBS World News

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SBS World News Australia - bringing you the global & national news that matters. Watch SBS 6.30pm nightly and 10.30pm Mon-Fri, listen at 6am & 6pm Mon-Fri.

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Migration portfolio

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Global People

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Refugees and migration: Global people | Global Words

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Texts used include the picture story book Ziba Came on a Boat, written by Liz Lofthouse and illustrated by Robert Ingpen, and the real-life story of Najeeba, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan. The focus might be complimented by having junior novels for students to read independently during the unit, such as Mahtab's Story by Libby Gleeson, Parvana by Deborah Ellis, and Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman.

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Migrants in Australia

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This is the third in my (yes, you've guessed it) four-part series about how the United Kingdom countries are represented here in Australia.

I did rather cryptically explain the countries that do form the UK last week in my post about the Scottish in Australia and the first in the series was about the Irish in Australia.

This week it's the turn of...

The Welsh in Australia

It won't surprise you to learn that Wikipedia have their very own Welsh Australian page and they say " According to the 2006 Australian census 25,317 Australian residents were born in Wales, while 113,242 (0.44%) claimed Welsh ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry."

This represents easily the fewest residents of the UK countries and even taking into account that Wales has a lower population than the others at just 3 million, it is still proportionately low. That doesn't stop Wales having one very well known Welsh person living here though.

Wales' most famous Australian

For those of you thinking I was going to say Julia Gillard, you can forget it. The most famous Welshman in all of Australia has to be David Jones.

David Jones is a hugely successful department store here in Australia; think Debenhams and you'd be close but that's more like our other Australian major departmental store, Myer. Think a little more upmarket though, say John Lewis, and that would be David Jones.

We even have a state here called New South Wales because it is thought that when he first arrived and saw the place it reminded Capt James Cook of the coast of South Wales, so what better name could it be given?
Time to take a look at a Welshman in Australia.
This is Rhod Gilbert, he came here for a holiday but as soon as he arrived there was a problem. He's not happy, and he doesn't like the Australian sense of humour...

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Welsh in Australia: Their Most Famous Immigrant

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This is the third in my (yes, you've guessed it) four-part series about how the United Kingdom countries are represented here in Australia. I did rather cryptically explain the countries that do form the UK last week in my post about the Scottish in Australia and the first in the series was about the Irish in Australia.

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Migration planning

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Fact Sheet: 2017-18 Migration Programme planning levels

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Interactive Migration Map

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Migration activities

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Refugee journeys - Lesson 1: Mapping country of origin

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Participants will be able to identify & map countries of origin and countries of asylum.

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Migration is the movement of people from one permanent home to another. This movement changes the population of a place. International migration is the movement from one country to another.

People who leave their country are said to emigrate. People who move into another country are called immigrants. The movement of people into a country is known as immigration.

Every year some people leave the UK and move abroad. At the same time some people will move into the UK. Immigrants add to the total population and emigrants are subtracted from the total.

Why do people migrate?

Sometimes people have a choice about whether they move, but sometimes they are forced to move. The reasons people leave a place are called the push factors. The reasons people are attracted to new places to live are called the pull factors.

Advantages and disadvantages of migration
Country losing people:

Money sent home by migrants.

People of working age move out reducing the size of the country's potential workforce.

Decreases pressure on jobs and resources.

Gender imbalances are caused as it is typically men who seek to find employment elsewhere. Women and children are left.

Migrants may return with new skills.

'Brain drain' if many skilled workers leave.

Host country:
In addition, there are a number of obstacles that the migrant may need to overcome, including:

UK migration

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BBC - KS3 Bitesize Geography - Population and migration : Revision, Page 6

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Migration is the movement of people from one permanent home to another. This movement changes the population of a place. International migration is the movement from one country to another. People who leave their country are said to emigrate. People who move into another country are called immigrants.

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" Read the Vietnamese version of this story
Author: Vuong Thanh Loc
Storyteller: Vuong Thanh's father
Community Language School: Vietnamese Cultural Schools, Bankstown
Main School: St Luke's , Revesby

A boatperson's story of deprivation and determination to find another homeland.

In 1975 Vietnam was taken over by Communist from the north. Since that day many people who worked for the South Vietnam government were in jail. Every thing was changed, the life became miserable, and we had no religion and no freedom. From 1975 to 1990 many people left Vietnam by boat and they became Vietnamese refugees or boat people. Though just about 60% of the boat people got lucky to come to the country they liked. Another 40% died on the sea or were killed by Thailand's pirates.

Most people who escaped from Vietnam have accepted that anything can happen to them, and bartered their property and their life. Many people were jailed by cheaters or chased by policemen, but they did not lose their spirit and they tried to leave if they have the chance. Therefore, there are many Vietnamese people living around the world now, and the following is my dad's story.

I was living with my family with eleven people; I had eight brothers and one sister. We worked in a grocery store, the family's business, so my family were middle class. Life was hard when the Communist came. My family could not do business and we had to live with worry and fear whit the local government watching, because I had two brothers who worked for the South Vietnamese government.

One day my father told us to try to leave Vietnam and we started planning for that. Ever since my life has had a big change. All my brothers escaped one at a time, all except me. I was unlucky, I had escaped seven times and I was jailed two times. The first time was for six months, the second time was for one year and I paid corruption money to get out of jail. Despite the fact, that my escape was a failure, but I did not give up or get weary.

So the following summer in the year 1984 I escaped again and after seven days I arrived in Malaysia. Every trip has a different pitiable story; my trip had a story too. When I left Vietnam on a small boat with fifty other people, my boat was unseaworthy because it was very small, just about 8metres long and 3metres wide but it carried fifty people.

The people looked like sardines in a can. The engine was very old and it did not have a hooded cover on top. The owner told us that a bigger ship would be waiting out in the sea, but we could not see one, we had been tricked. We realised now how important escaping was, it was too late for us to return. In that situation we had a hazardous voyage, so we decided to keep going with hope for any ship on the sea to save us, because the weather was very good and we just hoped and prayed together.

When we had been out to sea for about ten hours, the engine had broke down. We did not have any sails or paddles to keep the boat going, so the boat kept moving without any control or guidance. The food was scarce and can only last for two days. The third day we jus drank water when it rained. We saw some ships on the way, and we signaled S.O.S, but they did not stop to help.

We were desperate and exhausted. Suddenly on the seventh day at night, my boat came to shore. We did not know where this place was until the police came and we knew we had arrived in Malaysia. After that, they took us to Pulau Bidong Refugee Camp; it was a small island of Malaysia. Now I thought that my story was too good to be true. I stayed at a refugee camp for about nine months, then I came to Australia under my brother's sponsorship. I arrived in Melbourne in the spring of 1985. I felt very strange when I got the bus from Melbourne airport to the Midway Hostel, I saw many things. The traffic, the houses, the life were all different to my country and many gardens filled with beautiful flowers. I started to learn about the Australian way of life.

I was very worried about my new life here, and whether I would be able to find a job, because my English was very poor. Sometimes I felt very upset because of my language problem, and I got very homesick.

I stayed at the Midway Hostel for about one month, then I moved out because I had some friends who found a job for me. I worked as a jewellery manufacturer, because I was a jeweller in Vietnam and I felt a bit happier then.

I worked in this factory in Melbourne for about three years, where I learnt many interesting things about my job.

In 1999 I moved to Sydney because the weather in Melbourne was not suitable for my wife and my children, they were always getting sick.

At the momoent, my children like living in Sydney and they have a very good school too. I feel very lucky that my family is living here and the education is very good for my children. I also think that, Australia is a lucky country for everyone so I love Australia, the country my family is living in.

That is my father's story and he told me that Australia is his second native country, but he will never forget Vietnam. He also told me that I am very lucky to be born here. Many children in Vietnam are unlucky because they are very poor, they work hard and they cannot go to school.

Now I come to school to learn the Vietnamese language every Saturday, because I was born here so I don't know much about Vietnam.

I thank my Vietnamese teacher for teaching me about Vietnamese culture. Whenever I come to Vietnamese class, it always reminds me of my roots.

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From There (Vietnam) to Here (Australia)

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" Read the Vietnamese version of this story Author: Vuong Thanh Loc Storyteller: Vuong Thanh's father Community Language School: Vietnamese Cultural Schools, Bankstown Main School: St Luke's , Revesby A boatperson's story of deprivation and determination to find another homeland. In 1975 Vietnam was taken over by Communist from the north.

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I Came By Boat

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Global Migration to Australia