"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it."

I would love to see how these people interviewed again and how it all worked out 60 years later.

Never understood the term, especially when Aussies would walk the title of 'whingers' if whinging was an Olympic event.

Hope the Motherwell family did well...very positive and proactive mum and dad!

Some of my family were '£10 Poms' and went to some dustbowl mining town back in fifties, they paid the return back to Blighty.

Arrived in 1969, stayed for two weeks in East Perth Salvation Army hostel. Got work strait away 6 days a week, after 12 months I was well off being paid more than 3 x times my wage in England. Did a return trip on one of the first 747 jumbos to see my mum.then back to Sydney best city in the World.. I think the women always found it harder than the men.

Been lucky enough to live and work in a few different countries and this reminded me of many of my fellow ex-pat Brits - not prepared to put in the effort to get the best out of it and simply failed to appreciate how lucky they were.

2nd bloke nailed it.

This is an excellent troll as the poor old poms always take the bait, thus proving the initial contention. 🎣🎣

There is absolutely a TV series or film to be made from this.

I remember Clive James telling a joke about the Poms in Australia: A bus had crashed killing all inside and only the driver lived to tell the tale. A friend asked him, "Bill, why are you crying...I thought you hated the whinging Poms?" To which the driver replied : "There were 3 empty seats"

some of those complaining in this footage remind me of that classic scene in Auf Wiedersen Pet, when Vicky, seated at a fabulous cafe, in glorious sunshine, overlooking Marbella harbour, and being told she may have to stay there permanently, wails "Id die if i thought i wasn't gunna see Newcastle again"

My cousin emigrated but I don't think he was on any kind of scheme. He was a bit flummoxed that he had to get qualifications in his trade to be accepted (even though he felt he was more than capable). And life was difficult for many years. But he's still there, still married and he's now living the dream. I don't doubt many in this reel felt they were sold a pup, to an extent. But if you move to other side of the world, you should probably do a bit of homework and be prepared to stick it out for a few years.

Australian born and raised, as were my forebears going back 200 years, but I wouldn’t fancy living in a Nissen hut either.

Wow beach at the end of the road, get down there feel the wind rushing through you, see the waves roaring, , watch the sun set over the ocean. Bliss. It is for me at least after 40years of grim london now i have the same view as that lady at the bottom of the road and im a little happier about it! But different times i guess!

They were called whinging poms here in Aotearoa/ New Zealand as well and sometimes known as 10 pound poms because of the immigration scheme some arrived under. Many were seen as rude, ungrateful, arrogant snobs who felt they were better than us purely by dint of being white and/or having been born in the UK a couple of generations later than other Pākehā. They had a reputation for never being satisfied and they complained about the climate, wages, culture and unfavourably compared absolutely every single thing they encountered to "home". It didn't help that despite having left the UK BECAUSE they were broke and/or jobless, many seemed to feel entitled to some sort of preferential treatment, which was exactly the sort of attitude that many of our ancestors had emigrated to leave behind. When l was growing up the joke was: What's the difference between a pom and a 747? A 747 stops whining after it lands.

The Bee Gees did well from deportation.

That commission house in Sydney is now worth $2million ;) so probably worth sticking it out …….

We came to Australia in 1963 we stayed in wacol hostel in brisbane, Mum couldn't get used to the communal bathrooms, some of the women were downright fithy emptying kid's napkins in the laundry sink, Dad found a house for us in indooroopilly, he had to pay six month's rent in advance because we were migrants, then he found a job in mackay, so we moved there, and had to rent another house, the real estate agent in indooroopilly rented out the house there but kept all the money, it was tough, but eventually after working 7 days a week for years , dad started his own business, looking back Mum and Dad did the right thing comming to Australia.

My friend returned. He hated the racism of which the whinging poms thing is just a variant.

Served them right.

My wife, myself and our 10 month old son migrated to Australia in 1988. Even though we'd been given residency, we only intended to stay for one year. Of course, there are things we missed, but Australia has such a mass of opportunities and beautiful places, we stayed and have been here the whole time (36 years). We had another son born here, and now we have a granddaughter. Australia is 100% our home and if it were attacked, I would put my life on the line to save it. Do I still feel some attachment to England? Yes, of course but I think of myself as Australian now, not English. I don't have any particular desire to visit England. It used to be a lovely, genteel place but, sadly, it's been ruined by "you know what" and, on the times I have been back, I no longer feel like it's a place worth preserving. However, Australia certainly *is* a place worth preserving. To those who haven't yet been here, there's something for everyone... Old, young, tough, gentle, tall, short, fat, thin, cultured, or rough, Australia has it all. Come over and see this loveliest of all countries. You will not regret your trip.

Some of the biggest whingers I ever met were Australian. And I was born there. Townsville

this isn't what people mean about whinging poms

Since watching this informative clip I've decided not to emigrate there. The place is not even in colour.

I met quite a lot of poms back in th day, most of them were ok but now and again I would run into one and my god the wingeing and moaning was unbearable sometimes similar to a lot of comments here

£3/week mortgage on a £24/week income? They're only paying 1/8 of their wage to mortgage? 3x cheaper than now, although I don't know what the term length is to see if it's even cheaper, if they're on a 10 year then they're paying 7.5x less

There's a Bill Hicks joke about Australia being a penal colony.

I guess the native Australian population used to moan about the whinging convicts 😅😅

The dishonesty of the tales which were spun to immigrants before they left the UK was disgraceful. And the accommodation was dire. They had fair complaints. Thank you for the video!

I’ve been in Australia all my life,was born here. I definitely think that Aussies whinge more.

You don’t have to worry they still hate us

The thing they missed out here, quite a big thing really if you think about it. P.O.H.M's are the Australians themselves. It stands for PRISONER OF HER MAJESTY. The convicts that were sent to, and inhabit the island, are the P.O.H.M's. _Not_ the law abiding British people.

Its parody ...

Aussie's now call England "pomganistan" .

How can you tell when a plane load of British migrants have landed???... You can hear the whining even when the engines are shut down... Then the bulk of them stayed and went on to be very happy people... They just had to work like the rest of us...

BBC Archive loves to post videos that have anti British vibes...