Meaning of ten pound tourist | Babel Free

Definitions

An assisted immigrant to Australia from Britain, from the decades following World War II.

Australia, UK

Examples

“In 1971 my own (Anglo-Celtic) parents traveled from the “Mother country” (the United Kingdom) as assisted immigrants, among the last of the “ten-pound tourists.” My brother and I traveled free (see Appleyard et al. 1988).”

“Billy′s parents were ‘ten pound tourists’, arriving in Australia in 1962.”

“I became a ten-pound tourist, and emigrated to Australia. While I was there, I saw nobody from Trinity - apart from John Castle on the silver screen in Melbourne, starring in a film with Katherine Hepburn, which hardly counts. Nearly five years later, to miners′ strikes and the three-day week, I returned,[…].”

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