How often do you hear the cliché that we’re a nation of migrants, except for indigenous Australians? This is where the argument that we are a nation of migrants comes in. During the first half of the twentieth century, Australia decreasingly became a nation of migrants. But here’s another important point to make: the migrants that came in the 1950s and 1960s were very different from the migrants arriving today. Most migrants then had only limited contact with their home country and the family and friends they had left behind.