"Smokey seems genuinely unaware that, born here, I AM a repatriate, who sees himself as English rather than British" (me)...I'm not unaware of that WaV, I seem to have read it quite a lot. My point was that you emigrated from here to Australia, presumably because of some perceived advantage in doing that, and then moved back here again, also because you saw some benefit in doing so. It doesn't matter a chicken's nipple what you call yourself or how you see yourself - it doesn't change what you did. We have a saying round here: 'What's good for the goose is good for the gander'.(Smokey)...as is detailed in my life's work, I was 3 in 1970 when my family left England for Aus., 21 when I visited in 1988, and 30 in 1997 when I came home.

"Wavy - I see there's a documentary about Ten Pound Poms on BBC2 tonight (starts in about 20 minutes after Stephen Fry in America). I tell you, if you could still emigrate to Australia for a tenner I'd be on the first boat to Darwin, especially after the weather here today. Oh to bask in some Northern Territorial Sunshine singing some genuine A. Trads like The Derby Ram. UE of course - or is that UA?
Otherwise, answer me this - how do you square your earlier subjectivism (regarding your musical ability) with your general absolutism (concerning your political convictions)?" (IB - no need for IBy)...like those on the "Wanted Down Under" TV programmes I've watched, you, too, failed to mention Aborigines and land rights. And I don't think my proposals are "absolutism" - e.g., I haven't said ALL immigration/emigration should stop; I have said all economic/capitalist immigration/emigration should stop the world over, from now on.
Smokey - I haven't been in Aus. for 11 years, but I think the benefits for unemployed job seekers is about the same as here.