A new drama series aims to reveal the disparity between what the Australia government promised UK migrants and the antipodean reality
Sylvia Brady does not romanticise the state of her life as a newlywed in northern England in 1959.
“We’d get up in the morning and we’d go to work in the dark. We’d come home at night in the dark. It was always raining and there were these big posters everywhere ‘Australia wants new migrants and it’s only 10 pounds.’”
