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‘I’M PROUD TO BE A TEN POUND POM!’

Mary Warren, a great-grandmother from Whyalla in South Australia, was just 25 when she and husband Jim boldly decided to upend their lives in England, and move across the world with their two small daughters to a town they had never heard of.

“We were young and I suppose we were looking for something different,”

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