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    State of the States

    in Aussie Chat

    Posted

    If you're moving to Australia and haven't decided where to want to live yet, it may be worthwhile keeping an eye on CommSec's  'State of the States' reports. 

    The quarterly report attempts to find out how Australia’s states and territories are performing by analysing eight key indicators:

    • economic growth
    • retail spending
    • equipment investment
    • unemployment
    • construction work done
    • population growth
    • housing finance
    • dwelling commencements.

    Just as the Reserve Bank uses long-term averages to determine the level of “normal” interest rates; CommSec do the same with the economic indicators.

    For each state and territory, latest readings for the key indicators were compared with decade averages – that is, against the “normal” performance.

    The latest State of the States report also includes a section comparing annual growth rates for the eight key indicators across the states and territories as well as Australia as a whole. This enables another point of comparison – in terms of economic momentum.  

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    1. Victoria remains the top of the economic performance rankings. Victoria ranks first on economic growth, unemployment and construction work done.
    2. NSW is second on the overall economic performance rankings but still holds top spot for retail spending and dwelling starts. NSW is second ranked on three other indicators.
    3. The ACT has held on to third spot in the rankings. The ACT is top-ranked on relative housing finance and secondranked on population growth and business investment. Tasmania is in fourth position on the economic performance rankings, but is closing the gap on the ACT.
    4. Tasmania is ranked first on the relative position on population growth and business investment and is in second spot on housing finance.
    5. South Australia is now in fifth position on the performance rankings ahead of Queensland. But there is still little to separate the two economies. South Australia is thirdranked on construction work done and fourth on two other indicators.
    6. Queensland is now in sixth position. Queensland ranks fifth on four of the eight indicators.
    7. The Northern Territory retains its seventh position on the economic performance rankings and can be broadly grouped with Western Australia. Both are facing challenges with the transition of resource projects moving from the production to the export phase. The Northern Territory is third-ranked on economic growth. But it lags all other states and territories on five of the indicators. The good news is that employment has now been growing for the past five months.
    8. Western Australia is seventh or eighth on all indicators (eighth on three indicators). But equipment spending is now the highest in 3½ years

     

     

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    Expat Insider 2018 Quality of Life Survey

    in Aussie Chat

    Posted

    The 2018 Expat Insider Survey has recently been published.

    The Survey had 18,000 respondents from 178 different nationalities, living in 187 different countries.

    After ranking in the top 10 from 2014 to 2016, Australia faced a big drop in 2017, falling to 34th place out of 65. In 2018, it has recovered most of this lost ground, ranking 12th out of 68 destinations thanks to significant improvements in the Personal Finance, Quality of Life, and Ease of Settling In Indices.

    Australia is, in fact, among the biggest winners for all these indices, and also rose 19 ranks in the Working Abroad Index. 

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    Wildlife thread

    in Aussie Chat

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    Nat spotted this little snake on our land last night.

    It's a White Crowned snake - never seen this particular species before.

    Only tiny, around 15cm, not particularly venomous. Website I was reading up on about it says

    "Relying more on bluff display than bite. . They will generally rear up & 'mock strike' with mouth closed, more of a 'head butt'.

     

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    Site downtime

    in Forum Announcements, Q and A

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    At around 14:30 AEST on the 03/10, the server which pomsinoz resides on suffered something of a catastrophic failure.

    As a result of this, the hosting company had to rebuild the server using a backup from the 01/10. This completed at around 3am AEST last night.

    There was a possibility of recovering data from the guardian backup taken on the 2nd - however,  the projected completion of such a recovery would have resulted in a further, prolonged period of downtime. For reasons I've yet to establish, the hosting company were quoting me 2 days and 10 hours of further downtime.

    Therefore, we took the decision to leave the site up. Unfortunately, this means that posts made after the 01/10 backup was taken have been lost.

    Sincere apologies for the inconvenience this has caused.

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    Can anyone recommend a migration agent, are playfair or iscah good?

    in Working and Skilled Visas

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    There are many good registered migration agents who post on the forum who I wouldn't hesitate to recommend.

     Westly Russell - http://www.pinoyau.com/  

    Raul Senise - http://www.ozimmigration.com 

    Richard Gregan - http://www.overseas-emigration.co.uk/ 

    Alan Collett -  https://www.gmvisas.com/ 

    All MARA registered, many years experience as agents, all have contributed on the forum for around a decade or more.

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    Good Hairdressing Salons in Melbourne

    in Victoria

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    18 minutes ago, casey Livingstone said:

    I cant recommend Kiki Hair Extensions in South Yarra more!
    Ive had my hair ruined and went into there and had it transformed in one sitting!

    They are amazing with colour but i normally get extensions also ? The staff are always so nice to me and remember me 

    Call me Mr.Suspicious, but when you sign up to the forum using the following email address: hello@kikihairextensions.com.au it does kind of start the alarm bells ringing ?

    Maybe have a read through:

    https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/products-and-services/business-practices/advertising-and-promotions/false-or-misleading-representations

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    BUPA Australia email address

    in Health

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    20 minutes ago, Luna_Amabene said:

    I was looking for an email address for ages too! ☹

     

    I was just told by Bupa that bupa@members.bupa.com.au is not a correct email address for them.

     

    You can get to them on –

    Email: healthenq@bupa.com.au (2 business days reply time)

    Phone: +61394876400 (they're only open mon-fri, 8am-8pm syd time)

    Facebook: Bupa Australia

    Twitter: @bupaaustralia

     

    The social media team is really good, they reply Mon-Fri. Helped me out super quick. ?

    Thanks for the info

    However, just for the sake of transparency, you're being a little disingenuous stating that you were looking for an email address and how the social media team helped you out super quick, given the fact that according to your IP address, you're posting from BUPA.

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    How to entice more migrants into the regions

    in Aussie Chat

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    BankSA CEO Nick Reade, (speaking at the launch of BankSA's latest economic bulletin) says incentives are needed to attract skilled migrants to smaller cities and regional centres.

    He said approaching population growth in a smart and targeted way was vital for the less populated cities and states to ­develop stronger economies and higher living standards through increased workforce participation and productivity.

    “With our regional towns and centres, we need to provide the right incentives to get more ­people to move there,” Mr Reade said yesterday. “Australia doesn’t need less migrants, we just need to find ways to attract more migrants — and other Australians — to states like South Australia.”

    Melbourne had grown by more than 125,000 people, Sydney by more than 100,000, and Adelaide by just 9600 in 2016-17, he said.

    The number of skilled ­migrants to South Australia had dropped by 23 per cent since 2014-15, from almost 11,000 ­people to about 8000, he said.

    “Other cities are bursting at the seams, and facing real challenges as a result,” he said. “But we cannot allow the loud voices to our east to drive outcomes that would only worsen our situation. Rather than growing our population simply for the sake of having more people, we must be focused on ­attracting skilled workers from ­interstate and overseas.”

    In calling for a plan to address South Australia’s sluggish population growth, which at 0.6 per cent lags behind the rest of the country, Mr Reade backed a target of at least 1.6 per cent, or an extra 17,000 people, a year.

    He said education models needed to be revamped to ensure skills matched fast-growing and changing industries, and for the small business start-up rate to increase from 11 to 15 per cent, which would see an extra 7000 firms ­offering employment.

    “We should also consider more semi-skilled workers — including migrants — to fill the jobs that unfortunately many South Aus­tralians don’t want to do,” he said.

    Citizenship Minister Alan Tudge said the country had a migrant distribution problem. The federal government is looking to impose conditions on skilled visa holders, forcing people to spend far more time in regional centres.

    “When they’re there, hopefully they’ll put down roots, have their kids going to school, and make it their home,” Mr Tudge said.

    South Australian Premier Steven Marshall told the BankSA forum that Canberra had ­accepted “we do have a two-speed population” issue and the state needed “preferential migration status”. “There are states that say we have got too much (growth) — that is not our problem in South Australia; we are missing out,” Mr Marshall said.

     

    Elsewhere, former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce said there needed to be more money spent on regional infrastructure to encourage people to the country.

    “In Sydney, people are saying it is just so overcrowded … the traffic is bad,” 

    “Rather than spend another $5 billion on Sydney roads why don’t spend half a billion dollars in Tamworth and attract a lot more people into that area … and actually start spreading the population around.”

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    Where's the cheapest land you can buy in Aus?

    in Aussie Chat

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    Have a look on realestate.com.au

    You can specify 'Land' as the property type and a minimum land size. You'll probably have to enter at least a state (QLD, VIC etc) as I don't think you can search the whole country.

    Specify Max price value, sort by price and away you go. Haven't seen anything under $10,000 when I had a look for QLD, there were some around the $15,000 mark. Quite a few were auctions though, so they may have sold/sell for low amounts.

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    What are non Pro rota occupations?

    in Working and Skilled Visas

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    As I understand it, the current Occupations that are subject to pro rata arrangements are:

    Accountants
    Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers
    Electronics Engineers
    Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers
    Other Engineering Professionals
    CT Business and Systems Analysts
    Software and Applications Programmers
    Computer Network Professionals

     

     

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    Information on ticks and other things

    in Pets

    Posted

    Probably best talking to your vet, but you can get all in one products like Nexgard Spectra (monthly chewable tablet) which will protect against fleas, ticks & heartworm (spread by mosquitoes) or you can get a yearly injection for dogs (Proheart) which protects against heartworm.

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