Do not believe what the Pollies tell you

[Dennis McGuckin]

Latest today, the gov now intends to toughen up on the English language bit of the process.
Too many do not bother to learn enough to get by, they live in communities where many still speak the language of the countries they come from.
Getting into Oz is getting harder and for good reasons.
All who wish to work, unless they have a skill in total demand, must be sponsored, have sufficient funds to cover medical costs for the first two years and a few other bits.
A deposit, refundable, must also be lodged with the sponsor and that is to ensure they do have sufficient funds on arrival.
My brother nad his family came out in 2005, I had to sponsor them, and you are only allowed one sponsorship, and provide a $5,000 surety for them.

Like me John. My sister had to sponsor us into Canada.

[Captain Kong]

Hi Captain Kong.
Who the hell do we believe in ?.
Dave Williams

Hi Dave,
I believe in the Easter Bunny, he lays coloured eggs.

[cappy]

Hi Captain Kong.
Who the hell do we believe in ?.
Dave Williams

Hi Dave,
I believe in the Easter Bunny, he lays coloured eggs.

##cant say coloured now can we brian

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Hi Captain Kong.
Who the hell do we believe in ?.
Dave Williams

Hi Dave,
I believe in the Easter Bunny, he lays coloured eggs.

dont you mean she lays coloured eggs...

[Keith Tindell]

Hes and she's no longer permitted, definitions, kt, IT LAYS EGGS, no coloured

[Captain Kong]

I saw he video on UTUBE ......Hitler finds out, there is no Father Christmas, on You Tube
he gets very angry with his Officers, then at the end he says, "I still believe in the Easter Bunny, He lays coloured eggs," which I found funny .
But being Hitler he can ignore the PC people .

[thomas michael]

Hi Captain Kong.
Who the hell do we believe in ?.
Dave Williams

Hi Dave,
I believe in the Easter Bunny, he lays coloured eggs.

hi capt kong
just thinking about your comment and easter bunnies with coloured eggs, brings back a tale about one of my uncles, and it was after the war he thought he had good reason to walk into a pub in bootle and started to shoot up the place, anyway the result was a trip into a asylum for some years, years later I often had a drink with him, and he used to tell me about how he worked in the kitchen, and about one person used upset him so he used take food colouring and catch mice, which he used to dye in different colours and as he was up at five in the morning, he used to put the coloured mice under the door into this guys cell, Well you can imagine the result,
well I thought it was hilarious, it shows lunatics in a whole new light.
tom

[Captain Kong]

This is one of many, one that has no bad language in............

https://youtu.be/hdIhNQKgMdg

Hitler finds there is No Santa Claus...............

[Rodney Mills]

I and my former wife and three month old son entered the US as immigrants in 1962 from Canada. I had Cd$1,200, plus a letter of employment at the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. Calif. as a banquet cook at $19.47cents per day and a letter of sponsorship from the brother of my mate who had got his visa for the US. three weeks before my interview at the consul office in Winnipeg ( we were living and working in Northern Ontario). President Johnson changed the rules for entry into the US and Northern Europeans became on equal footing with everybody else.

The laws of entry were based upon the ethnic make-up of the U.S. at that time, so it was easy for Brits, Germans etc. to get in as Northern Europeans made up the largest block of peoples. You were out of luck if you came from Thailand .

The UK had something like 100.000 annual open slots for US immigration, but i.e. only used 50,000 per year, so as a Brit. it was dead easy. Most Brits didn't know it was so easy to get into the states then. I didn't, I naturally just thought of commonwealth countries. I honestly didn't think much of life in Australia during my two voyages there in the MN. I kinder liked South Africa, but I could see a lot of trouble coming down the pike, so ruled that out and settled on Canada. We left England five days after our wedding with fifty pounds, having had to pay for a full white wedding ourselves as part of the conditions laid down from my wife's parents as a condition for permission to marry (she was just eighteen, I was twenty, twenty-one being the age without parental consent. We sailed from Liverpool to Montreal on the Sylvania then via train to Toronto and lived in Ontario for three and a half years.

If those rules existed as they are today I would not have been given an entry visa to the US and probably not for Canada. I wouldn't qualify. After all who wants a tired and huddled cook, yearning to be free?

[Doc Vernon]

Don't know if this counts here but anyway I Immigrated to Aus in 1980 with Wife and Two Young Kids,with only 300 South African Rand ,the funnily enough more than the Aussie Dollar,so on exchange did not have much!

Had to stay with the In Laws first up for just a few days,got a job pronto as well as the Wife,Kids were looked after by Granny LOL

After only two weeks moved into rented House fully furnished for Six Months ,the Owners went to the UK ,so that was so lucky/

After the six Months managed to save enough to get a Rental Flat ,and had to but everything I mean everything,so Furnished the entire place ,and had then a debt to pay off!

But all went well and we went from strength to strength ,making it possible to But our first Home a couple Years later!
The rest is History,all paid and no debts for quite a few Years now.
Oh yes the Lucky Country indeed! Thanks Australia!

[j.sabourn]

Very similar to you Vernon only 10 years later. I get the impression if had stayed in the uk would still be paying my mortgage off. On initial arrival was extremely hard to get credit as had no credit rating, which is as it should be. Once established though it was up to yourself and how many hours you put in as to your standard of living. No buckshees it was up to yourself to make your way. As regards those brochures of yours in 1990 in the uk as master in one part of the industry I was on less than 10,000 pounds a year with dubious leave ratios and that was as master so you can imagine what some were getting just for the privilege of working and not being a dole chaser. Australia wants to continue with its you have to be cruel to be kind attitude that most winjers are against.
Don’t go soft on the leeches of society too many have already got through the net. It is a lucky country for those who can respect its laws and customs. A man or woman gets what they are worth and is their choice. Cheers JWS