Originally Posted by
patty50
When my grandmother came to Australia in her 20s she never saw her parents again. Within Australia’s immigrant history the immigrants knew that coming here meant more or less cutting the rope and many never returned to their country of origin. Visiting family overseas a couple of times a year is a very recent phenomenon, really only in the last 20 years.
The reason we can’t leave is because people leave and then cry they can’t readily come back (see just about everyone in India who wants to return).
wasn’t the premise of long service leave to allow poms to return on the long voyage for family reunions……