blobby1000

She's homesick, she doesnt need a psychologist to tell her that!

How much is cheap? You'll be looking at $1000+ a week for a furnished 2 bed short term let in the CBD I reckon

And in Melbourne its ALWAYS rush hour.

Surely they still have to have a decent reason don't they?

I'm not surprised she is being negative. If what she says is true, this is not a "speed hump"; she has been unfairly dismissed and is quite right to feel aggrieved.

This all sounds a bit strange. They cannot sack you for making a medication error so long as you were honest, owned up, took all necessary steps to keep the patient safe and were convincing in your regret for what happened. I have read some of the posts on here about people being over and under medicated and being kind about it because nurses are under pressure but to be honest, thats not really any excuse. Medication errors shouldn't happen and if you are on the receiving end of one you have every right to be angry (incidently, what did your patient think of it?) Having said that, in my job I give out medication to 22 people a day, maybe 4 or 5 tablets each plus all the extra meds as required and injections etc. Over the course of a year thats about 2000 single times I will give someone some medication. I am afraid it is inevitable that there will be the occasional error. I do not know a single nurse that has not made a medication error. How did the hospital treat you prior to this incident? Im not being nasty but they are either a hospital that do not accept mistakes of any kind or, for whatever reason, they wanted you to leave. This could be due to financial issues, it may not be personal at all. Its a great pity you are not in the union. Australian nursing unions are brilliant, far more militant than these UK ones who don't fight anything or anyone. I did hear that Aussie unions may help you even if you join after the adverse event, give them a call. You need to put this down to experience and ask them politely to provide you with a reference. I wouldnt go down the unfair dismissal road at the moment but I definitley would if they dont provide you will a reasonable reference. You cant lose your career over one mistake which you were honest about. I would be interested to know where you worked? I understand you may not want to tell me. Best of luck

I reckon about £20k by the time it was all paid for, and that was on a 457. But I'm including full container shipment, 4k to fly our dog out, flights, temporary accommodation, visas, buy a car, money until I started work etc And then about 20k dollars to get back home 2 years later!

I know a lovely place in Berwick, 3 bedrooms, it's actually in Harkaway, just outside Berwick in the Far Eastern Suburbs, bit over an hour from Melbourne. It's furnished and reasonably priced, I could dig out the details if your interested. We stayed there when we first came over and went back for a weekend in 2012.

I heard, and it may be wrong, that if your permanent visa has expired (generally five years after it is granted) and you state clearly you will ever return to Australia! then you can claim all your super back. it may be wrong though but it's surely worth a try.

Whereabouts in Australia did you live Bora? i wonder if you will miss anything given time, but very pleased your glad to be back.

They are just different to the British. It's not what we are used to, but it's a foreign country! on the whole, I didn't really like them, but I met some really lovely Aussies too.....there are knobheads in the UK as well of course!

Jet pets were absolutely fantastic. I cannot praise them enough. Honest, organised, realiable, friendly and our dog trotted out of immigration like he has just been for a pleasant stroll.

Welcome back! I had been trying to find you! How's it going !

You keep telling yourself that, darling x

Sunshine (but I mean autumn and spring NOT summer) Having enough money for the first time in our lives Having a pretty stress free job coffee, my God I miss the coffee Living by the beach Being on an adventure Night shifts.....being paid 500 bucks to sleep and go on pomsinoz Some of the friends we made That lovely elderly couple of the end of Felix Crescent that always stopped to say hello! Whats DONT I miss: Renting Rude estate agents Rip off culture Oz arrogance and different sense of humour appalling driving Poor education The thought of being eaten when I go swimming Flat racing (I'm a cheltenham national hunt man!) appalling food, grisley chicken! Ex-pats! Just some of the ones we met! But some were very nice poor quality nursing Overall, on reflection, and with those rose tinted glasses and a kind of positive negative brain....coming back was both the wrong and the right thing to do. I'm still 50/50 on it. But, basically, we could have always come home but we can never go back now...

brilliant article, thanks for this. I love the bit about if you talk about whether you are happy, you are not! we had endless discussions on this subject in Australia! Exhausting!

Great Post Melbourne Smells.

So true. We had a really beautiful summer last year, I preferred it to an Aussie summer of 40 degrees and having to put sun cream on the kids just to walk to the end of the garden (and it was a small garden!) And it is possible to go outside in the rain!

Great post and nice to be reminded of why we left Australia (which we sometimes forget in amongst the rain and mounting debts) I suggest you get yourselves back home!

Great advice. I remember a rather odd pom who lived in the same town as us in Victoria (Torquay) and I asked him if he would ever return to the Uk and his answer was: "No, all my mates back home are really envious of me being here!" (as if thats a reason to stay....but its precisely what you were saying) Where were you in Conutry Victoria incidently?

This is extremely true and exactly what we did (not helped by a gigantic party the night before we left the UK)...and what's more, on returning to the UK we often look back on our life in Australia was rose tinted glasses as well! Although I have often criticised people on here for going on about the need for endless positive thinking when in Australia, actually, in our position now we have three choices: We either look at the negatives in the UK and the positives in Australia and have regrets, or we look at the positives in the UK and the negatives in Australia and look back at the past in a fairly bitter and twisted way.....or we look at the negatives and the positives of both and remember that all we have ever done is tried to make the right decisions at the time....

Sometimes I wonder if someone is paying them to go away!

No it was a joke

Just read this....fair enough my source was wrong about everything else he ever said, so no surprise he got this wrong as well

Apparently......according to a Brit I met in Oz, the whole you-can't-get-your-super-back-on-a-permanent-visa is a load of rubbish. he reckons if you cancel your P.R and say you will never return (on that visa) you can get it all back... it's worth a try....has anyone tried it? you can definitely get payments back that you paid whilst a temporary resident, even if you ended up on a P.R visa.