ten pound tourist

plural ten pound tourists · alternative ten-pound tourist

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

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

   2006, James Knight, Just Doing My Job, unnumbered page

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   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).

   2003, Ian Maxwell, Notes: Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes: Hip Hop Down Under Comin′ Upper, page 251

   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,[…].

   2009, Sebastian Balfour, Laurie Howes, Michael De Larrabeiti, Anthony Weale, editors, Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the Sixties, page 154

   Synonyms: ten pound Pom, ten pound pom