Gbye grey sky

I certainly experienced hotter days in Surrey than I have in Brisbane. Our small bedroom with poor ventilation in England would be just as hot and humid at night as here during those spells. There are obviously more of them here but the house is designed to be cooler and we have air con to make it comfortable to sleep. Sydney does get higher summer temperatures than Brisbane. Something people don’t realise.

England gets that too, to be fair.

Lets face it though, Quoll, you find Australia unbearable, fullstop! As you are fond of recounting.

Good luck with that with a potential hard Brexit looming.

That just so happens to be my daughter’s school Cal. They are indeed good for drama, dance and music.

Moved from Surrey to SE Queensland with wife and daughter 5 years ago. We have managed to survive all the earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters so far. Most people we have met since arriving not so lucky. Its a wonder there is anyone left alive, frankly. Seriously, we are just hanging on. Best stay in East Sussex. Keep safe!

I tend towards negativity too and in your position I would probably be speculating the same. However with the benefit of being able to rationalise this dispassionately I do think that the prospects may be better than you are assuming. Whilst much will depend on a vaccine I am sure that ways will be found to open up international travel well within 12 months.

If he was in the UK right now he wouldn’t have a social life and the kids wouldn’t be at school so two of the prime problems are not pertinent. Your husband may have more chance keeping his job here at the moment too and if he works outdoors then he will find the next 7 months better than the first 5 months for sure because winter is coming. This pandemic situation is not going away for a very long time. If you have your health and you have jobs then you are way luckier than a great many people right now. Perhaps get your family to focus on the positives of your situation.

I didn’t say life wouldn’t get back to normal. I certainly haven’t lost hope that it will. But it will not get back to normal in 2020. Beyond that, who knows?

No, it isn’t. Life will not get back to normal for a very long time. Suggest that you put any such ideas on hold for this year and consult a registered migration agent in a few months time.

As I understand it PR is permanent, hence the name. I have never heard of an instance where an individual could cancel or revoke PR in order to recover their Super early. I suspect you will need to wait until you it reaches maturity.

Actually placed in quarantine. No longer self-isolation. You will be put up at a hotel especially set up for this purpose in the city you arrive in. Not sure what the arrangements are to transport you to your home at the end of the quarantine period.

I would confidently predict that overseas travel (barring returning nationals) will not restart until there is a COVID 19 vaccine and it is widely distributed so that a population truly has herd immunity for this virus. This seems unlikely in 2020.

We are all in for a very rough ride. We have pushed the reset button on the global economy with this crisis and it will take a very long time to reboot. For the next few months though the priority must be the public health crisis. 2020 will be a write-off so it would be a brave or foolhardy person who pushed ahead with emigration planning this year because it just isn’t going to happen. International mobility will not return for a long time.

The first case is irrelevant. Two weeks ago the UK was showing about 1500 cases while Australia was 300. Even if the infection figures were reliable you really need to look at death rates alongside the infection rate numbers of 2 weeks ago particularly when the upward curves on the graphs are so pronounced. The 0.3% death rate in Australia is a statistical anomaly caused as much by the lag in the spread on infection here as much, if not more, than the relative testing. Sadly the number of deaths here is set to rise sharply in the coming weeks.