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    Fresh off the boat

    May 28, 2023 2 minutes

    TEN POUND POMS, TVNZ 1, Saturday, June 3, 8.55pm;TVNZ+

    The war was barely over when Australia launched its Assisted Passage Migration Scheme in 1945 – and in many respects the project was about the war.

    The urgency in the political slogan behind it – “populate or perish” – was a product of quite how close Japanese forces

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