Ten Pound Poms

1 x 60 minutes for ABC Australia (2007)

Ten Pound Poms traces the stories of the one million post-war Britons who paid ten pounds to emigrate to Australia in one of the biggest planned migrations of the twentieth century. Settling in would be no easy task, as anti-British sentiment and culture clash abounded. Which country would ultimately claim the hearts of these ‘ten pound poms’?

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