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The beginning of my story.

This won't be an exciting post as I'm still getting the hang of it, but here is the background info :)

My name is Erin and I'm 21 years old. By day I'm an Instrumentation Engineer, the rest of the time I like to think I'm a photographer.

I live with my parter/other half (which I have recently spotted abbreviated to OH on here :P). We've been together 5 years this year and things are fine and dandy. He loves to mountain bike and after ...

QUESTION :You should not leave Australia as PR for straight 2 years or just 1 year to be eligible for citizenship in Australia? which is which? Tnx!

Melbourne: Australia's most over-priced property market.

The recent Sydney Housing Valuation Report argued that Sydney's housing market, despite being Australia's most expensive when measured against household incomes, is built upon relatively sound fundamentals and offers a safer-than-average (Australian) proposition from an investment housing viewpoint.


Now this column wants to focus on the Melbourne housing market, which is built upon far shakier foundations ...

Australian Tourism Campaign Failures

Australian Tourism Campaign Failures Why Australia is out of fashion. Sir Richard Branson is mystified by Australian tourism’s incompetence. The “brand” it has to sell used to be the world’s perennial flavour of the month and still rates as one of the globe’s most desirable places to visit. But somehow we’ve stuffed it up, killed [...]

Overseas Workers and Limiting Australia Immigration, Patronising or What?

Postponing prosperity. Wooing skilled overseas workers here to top up Australia’s skills shortage is short-sighted. AUSTRALIA is one of the very few developed countries with an active migration program. At its recent peak, immigration increased the Australian population by 1.7 per cent while ”natural” increase added 0.6 per cent… …Labor and the Liberals plus the [...]