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Yes Vernon, up until about 1990 it was fairly easy to get out here.
But things have changed much brought about by the Howard Gov.
Unless you have a required skill it can be very hard, but even with a skill such as my brother as a sparky we still had to sponsor him.
Most now have to have sponsor ship of some form to et here, but some skills such as Bakers, plasterers, brickies, dunny divers, sparkies, now in big demand, it is possible to get sponsorship from a firm who specialize in this.
Re my Post #4
The next Year one of the Brothers ( no not a Golden Girl haha)also used that Assisted Passage here and sailed from Durban on a Ship that i cant remember but will find out!
ACHILLE LAURO
Funny that this Post should have come up again by the Likes so then i too just remembered the name of that Ship , as i have posted above!
Remember going aboard and saying Hasta Lavista to him, and his Wife! Lovely Ship it was but that was many Moons ago!
Cheers
Now the restrictions are a little easier and there is a big shortage of some skilled workers there is the chance the feral gov may erase entry restrictions for some time.
I know of many from this way that went, some were back ASAP,
have many family that stayed and still there. One young lady
went for a holiday to Sydney, was offered a job in banking and
sadly for me only seen her once since.
K.
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Originally Posted by Victoria Moss
Shiny Happy People
R.E.M.
Shiny happy people laughing
Meet me in the crowd, people, people
Throw your love around, love me, love me
Take it into town, happy, happy
Put it in the ground where the flowers grow
Gold and silver shine
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing
Everyone around, love them, love them
Put it in your hands, take it, take it
There's no time to cry, happy, happy
Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines
Gold and silver shine
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing
Whoa, here we go
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing
Shiny happy people holding hands (people, happy people)
Shiny happy people holding hands (people, happy people)
Shiny happy people holding hands (people, happy people)
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Well I came here in later life 1991 , 38 years after my first visit to Australia . The reasons why came are not important to others . But I paid all the way and right up until 2 weeks ago was still paying by way of taxes .like Vernon arrived with very little money , an unsold house in UK even left the car in the garage to be picked up later by a buyer. However had a sister out here which got 2 points off the 90 then required . Knew an Australian in uk who gave me the address of someone in Adelaide Steamship Co.who I wrote to to see the possibility of work here , and his reply was get here and you’ll have no problem with work. Used that letter as reference for the immigration authority’s , never had to show my face to them , they tried to warn me via mail about the costs of housing , which I replied I had been to Australia many times . Stuck all our furniture in a container sent by Maersk whicharrived 3 months after us , so put in storage as was living with sister before going into rented property. Starting from new again at my age was hard but worth it , especially since the accountant I now have has got my tax liability down to
$37 dollars for this year , so celebrated by buying 2 new electric beds to ease the aches and pains of old age. Everything is worth it in the end . Australia has been my haven or more practible my heaven for the past 30 years and can’t think of anywhere else I would rather be, maybe for short spells in the bath house in Kobe with the wax treatment to follow. But always coming home to Oz. At the end of.
JS
Used to be Lewis that to get any benefits you had to be an Australian citizen , worked in Australia for a minimum of 10 years and paid taxes.All of which I agree with. I signed a paper that I would not be a burden on the State and never have been up until now. O.A P here is related to other pensions you maybe receiving. My Australian pension is reduced accordingly . But I do get subsidised prescriptions and free medical treatment , I have no teeth left so dental wise don’t pay much , but can cost a bomb for the wife as she has lead a good life and still has all of hers . Don’t know what the illegals get but whatever it is it is too much. JS
I will never match you guys but i was honestly on my way to a promised job in New Zealand in 1961 when I emigrated to the USA expecting to stay for two years while saving up the $2000 or so necessary to continue on to NZ. My mother had left the UK for Canada when i was still a Cadet and she had managed to move into New York State as a Cook/Housekeeper and the man she had recently married was a Chauffeur/Butler for very rich East Coast families. I had just married a Cargo Dept BookKeeper for Cunard whose mother wouldn’t agree to letting her daughter go directly to NZ as knew she wouldn’t see her again. My new wife also wasn’t sure either so the two years was a sort of trial — it didn’t work out and she returned on her own to UK eventually. Union Steamship had a ship under construction at Cammel LLairds in Birkenhead and i was to work aboard as Mate and also take her out to NZ - i was to be allowed to Box up our furniture and take it with. I also had a job lined up with a small Coastal shipping group out of Christchurch on condition i got myself there
Often wonder if that job actually existed. Anyway, i had to back out of the Union Steamship job.
I think the UK govt paid 25 pounds each to fly us out to Chicago. Only allowed a medium size suitcase each and a huge envelope containing chest X-rays showing we were TB free. Only had money for one month. Landed on Sunday morning, went looking for a job through a Clearing House
On the Monday and started work on the Tuesday as a Statistician for an Insurance Company. A year later discovered i was the lowest paid person in the 12 person team yet 2nd in charge ! Quit and Took a job as Ocean Marine Underwriter as Great Lakes opening up to Salties in a big way and a year later was working in Stevedoring in Chicago and Milwaukee ports. Met and married my Chicago gal and still together 54+ years. Always a cargo man in some form or another since then. Keith A.
Like you Victoria we went for a drive Sunday.
Glorious weather and the crowds along the sea front was enormous.
Had a great day with every one in a great mood, freedom after almost 280 days lock down.
Today the aircraft are arriving again, sanity may yet prevail.
My brother in law and his wife, now both residents in the local cemetry, came out as 10 pound Poms in the mid 50's.
As he told me the changes he saw over the years was amazing.
We were lucky when we came out, under the small business scheme, cost us nothing, Oz paid our fare.
#64 you weren’t around the traps. In Milwaukee about 1968 ish were you Keith. If you were did you ever get to a club there called the Safe House.? JS
Don’t want to get too personal or tell stories out of line but was strongly tempted and offered a job as a grain inspector in Chicago by a licensed surveyor for same , he offered to pay to put up my shingle for me , but in meant taking big risks which I wasn’t prepared to do at the time. Cheers JS