Poms In Oz

Vic41 · Guru

Poms In Oz

Wirroff · Senior Member

I take it you're a Pom then Vic?

Greetings from two others if that's the case! wink

Vic41 · Guru

Wirroff wrote:
I take it you're a Pom then Vic?
Greetings from two others if that's the case!

Pommy descent, but second generation Skippy......very pro Pom's though as immigrants as long as they have similar values to most Australians and don't try to destroy the country from within (can't say any more than that in case I get into trouble)..... wink biggrin

-- Edited by Vic41 on Tuesday 7th of January 2014 09:03:25 PM

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

^^^^^^^^Exactly ^^^^^^^^

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Ha! I know a Pom who came to Oz in 1967 on a tourist visa and he's still here!

dorian · Guru

I worked with a Pom who jumped ship decades ago. Not the usual kind of illegal immigrant.

Vic41 · Guru

I worked with a Danish chap that was a merchant seaman years ago and jumped ship, at one time the Australian Government gave an amnesty to those who were here illegally as long as they fessed up, and he was granted Australian Citizenship.

I think at the time they were not sure exactly how many were in Oz and were trying to get an accurate idea of our population.

I don't believe they would grant such an amnesty these days though.

-- Edited by Vic41 on Tuesday 14th of January 2014 01:19:08 AM

elliemike · Guru

When I was at sea that was very common in Australia and New Zealand.

I knew a few who did it. In fact the last one I knew personally was in about 1988. He jumped a Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel in Auckland. Usually there was a girl ashore that the heartstrings would not let go. Love Hmmmmmmm.

Even knew a guy that was offered a job (4th Engineer) in Wellington, he could just not refuse. So he did a runner, the Master informed the police to get you arrested, if they could find you.

Just lay low for a year or two keep your nose clean and work under the table for wages. Surprisingly when most I knew reported to the police after a few years on the shore, the police said they knew where they were. Working not doing any harm, so they left them to do the right thing and report in eventually. Not sure what the Taxation Dept thought about this.

The thing was then, as a British Subject them days you almost did not need a passport to gain entry into either NZ or Aust. Nor for Australians or Kiwis to just come ashore in the UK and Get a job.

dorian · Guru

Speaking of jumping ship, does anyone remember this illegal immigrant?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliana_Gasinskaya

johnq · Guru

dorian wrote:
Speaking of jumping ship, does anyone remember this illegal immigrant?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliana_Gasinskaya

Is that a memory test for GNs?

Historians might Google something like Liliana Gasinskaya a.k.a. Red Bikini Girl
Penthouse Australia October 1979, I suppose.

Please advise why the ones arriving via the people smugglers' expensive tourism packages are nothing like that and more like this,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlwzmj0dkw

03_troopy · Guru

Another P.O.M.E here, arrived in 1957 as a 3yr old. Joined the RAAF in 72 at 17, was invited to become a citizen by mail in the early 80's after I had already been serving in the Australian ADF for 8 or 9 years (my memory fails me here). I used to get an Australian passpot with "Australian Citizen" crossed out and "British Subject" written above it in biro (I even had a green one annotated this way). It did cause some drama when entering Indonesia once, when they got upset by the biro ammendment.