Title: Likely Lads and Lasses : youth migration to Australia 1911-1983 /
Authors: Gill, Alan.
Publisher: BBM Ltd,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Emigration and immigration.; Great Britain Emigration and immigration.
Abstract: In the early years of the last century a group of patriotic citizens, concerned at German naval expansion, decided to raise money to buy a battleship. When their offer was politely rebuffed, they decided to 'defend' Australia in another way - importing British youths to work on rural properties. The aim was simply to fill Australia's empty spaces with young people of white, essentially Anglo-Saxon stock. Some 50,000 young people were brought to Australia under the youth migration schemes. This book tells, for the first time, their collective story.