1960 here as well !

.Ex Ipswich Suffolk England   April 1960..   by boat   "Fairsky "

No passports or papers for us kids ..

my sister and I had to pay for searches to get paper work to become citizens 10 years ago.

brother got his citizenship as soon as he left uni 1970 ..needed it to practise law ..

We know all have dual citizenship.

My grandies still tell friends that I came out on a convict ship . lol

Not many Scots were brought in leg irons, mostly Irish or petty thieves from London.

It was a joke, Jenny.

I wake up some days and wonder how I got here, but other days I just wonder how to get the hell out.

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@xxlejacsxx wrote:

1960 here as well !

 

 

.Ex Ipswich Suffolk England   April 1960..   by boat   "Fairsky "

 

No passports or papers for us kids ..

 

my sister and I had to pay for searches to get paper work to become citizens 10 years ago.

 

brother got his citizenship as soon as he left uni 1970 ..needed it to practise law ..

 

We know all have dual citizenship.

 

My grandies still tell friends that I came out on a convict ship . lol

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

I don't believe, at my time of life, that standing up in front of an official and reciting an oath of allegience would make me feel any more Australian than I do already.

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I felt very much the same way.  I had been here, contributing to Australia, for a number of years.  I had an Australian husband and three Australian children.  I felt like I had already shown my commitment to the counrty.

The only reason I did the citizenship thing is because, living in Canberra at the time, I wanted to get work in the APS and those were the rules.

I actually felt that what I had already contributed was somehow devalued.

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:

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@xxlejacsxx wrote:

1960 here as well !

 

 

.Ex Ipswich Suffolk England   April 1960..   by boat   "Fairsky "

 

No passports or papers for us kids ..

 

my sister and I had to pay for searches to get paper work to become citizens 10 years ago.

 

brother got his citizenship as soon as he left uni 1970 ..needed it to practise law ..

 

We know all have dual citizenship.

 

My grandies still tell friends that I came out on a convict ship . lol

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We arrived here in February 1960 on the Fairsky.Yours would have been the next trip over.😊

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Luxury!!

We came on her "sister" ship, the much older Castel Felice, in 67

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@carls*world wrote:

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:

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@xxlejacsxx wrote:

1960 here as well !

 

 

.Ex Ipswich Suffolk England   April 1960..   by boat   "Fairsky "

 

No passports or papers for us kids ..

 

my sister and I had to pay for searches to get paper work to become citizens 10 years ago.

 

brother got his citizenship as soon as he left uni 1970 ..needed it to practise law ..

 

We know all have dual citizenship.

 

My grandies still tell friends that I came out on a convict ship . lol

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We arrived here in February 1960 on the Fairsky.Yours would have been the next trip over.😊

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Luxury!!

We came on her "sister" ship, the much older Castel Felice, in 67

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My parents both came over as refugees from Europe after WW 11 - seperately, and married here a few years later.

My mother worked as a translater for the Red Cross both in Germany (not her country of birth) and  then Sydney for some time - she spoke & wrote 5 languages fluently, and could understand 4 or 5 more...

Dad ended up at Bonegilla migrant camp  - as s skilled worker he had no problems getting employment, unlike others.

First generation Aussie!

My family migrated here in the early fities, I was a baby, they left Holland to look for a better life, it was hard going after the war, never looked back, paid their own way, no migrant camps, no assistance at all. Got citizenship asap.