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On 26/06/2021 at 08:07, Island said:

Hi Tulip,

Sure - our parents! My mum has dementia..

Yes life was very good, Australia was very very good to us - beautiful home, great jobs, great lifestyle, happy kids, great friends.  But ageing parents meant we felt quite torn and would spend all our holidays back in the UK.  Although its been financially disastrous for us, I am still glad we've come back mid covid as we've seen loads of my family so its been totally worth it - I know we would have been miserable feeling stuck in Oz, however perfect life was.  And nothing is forever, we are all dual citizens. And no doubt we will all head back in the next couple of years.  I moved around a lot as a kid so find it easy to get my head around. Not so great for my kids probably.  To be honest I think I underestimated the sense of belonging they have to Oz, and also the peace of mind that financial security gives to us as adults with responsibilities (ugh!). 

We were very much in the same situation. We moved back for similar reasons and then our kids, who are now both young adults, decided to come back to Australia a couple of years ago and we moved back nearly a year ago. I agree as to the financial impact - it has definitely set us back quite a lot in mortgage terms, however we were the ones who brought them here, and I can see why they wanted to be back. We have settled back in pretty well. Our kids are doing so well here, with opportunities they would never have had in the UK. Always going to be a difficult balancing act with aging parents in the UK though.

We are going to be moving out of our lovely house on the coast in Adelaide at the beginning of November. Just in case anyone is coming over at that time and will be looking for a rental, please feel free to get in contact. It is an old house but has the most incredible location looking directly over the sea. 8 minutes walk to train station and 5 minutes to a nice pub. Landlords are good and respond quickly with repairs etc.

On 10/09/2023 at 07:58, Pip87 said:

On 09/09/2023 at 13:19, Quoll said:

Not unless your masters includes the pre-requisite number of supervised teaching days under the auspices of a University. You could always submit your qualifications for assessment and see what they say though. 
 

Thank you for your reply- No my masters didn’t include supervised teaching.It was  specific to autism and therefore not focused towards teaching itself. 

Given I’m currently qualified and working as a teacher here, can that not be used for experience? Saying that though, I guess because that experience not been supervised by a university though it won’t be considered. Hmmm…so basically I need to get 45 days of my teaching supervised by a university. I’m not even sure how I would go about that here..
Thank you for your help, need to do a bit more research and see what I can do to get qualified in Australia!

Hi,

You would need  an education qualification to teach here (certainly I can talk about SA). Teachers either do a four year teaching degree with teaching prac every year. They then have to pass something called a GTPA (a final teaching project, consisting of a learning sequence they compile, and a longer teaching prac). The other alternative is to do a 2 year Masters course. You will not be recognised for prior teaching experience overseas, or a qualification other than a PGCE, even if that seems unfair. 

1 hour ago, Quoll said:

Smallest move cube?

Haven't heard of them. Is that with a company? Will Google thanks. 

I think there are lots of things that will help you to settle. You definitely make friends more easily when you have Primary aged children and once you know people and have joined in with things you may feel more part of your new community. It will be easier once the housing is also sorted. It is more of a culture shock than you probably anticipated and that can be hard too. 

On the schooling side I (as someone who's taught in both countries) am adamantly opposed to all the testing and stress the UK puts on children in primary. The Oz system seems slower paced and that's great! Kids here still become vets and nurses etc but also have more variety of experience, learn to be more articulate and grow up more slowly with things like scouts on offer and plenty of sport and outdoor stuff. 

If you have come and not really improved on what you had in the UK, you might question the benefit overall. Give it time with as positive a perspective as you can. Where you are has lots to offer for families. 

Personally I feel the UK is in its worst state in living memory! 

We recently moved back to Australia after 7 years back in the UK and this time just shipped some boxes and no furniture. We still have a few things to bring and just wondered if anyone could recommend a oast-effective way to ship a few more boxes as our shipping company said the extra ones are too small a quantity for them. 

Thank you. How about other big industry?

I wonder if anyone can help. My son, who is seventeen (eighteen in September) is currently in the U.K doing a level 2 electrical installation course, which finishes at the end of May. He would then find an apprenticeship to complete level 3. However he has recently been thinking he'd like to work in Oz, possibly in the mining sector, so we were wondering if it would be possible for him to do his apprenticeship out there, so he became qualified with the right Oz tickets? 

He has citizenship. We were living in SA for seven years and returned to UK nearly three years ago.

Any advice gratefully received.

I wonder if anyone can advise. My MIL is coming out at the end of August to do a reccie. Basically her situation is that she has one son here (my husband) and one son living in Spain. She was widowed shortly after we left the UK, so is really on her own. She now wants to look into coming here.

Previously I told her about the aged parent visa and she seemed keen. With the new info is this now an impossible risk? Would it be worth trying with a view to switching to a cpv if things became tricky? Could she still have a bridging visa and live here whilst she was on the waiting list for the 103?

I read something on this thread about only being able to buy a new house if you are on a temp/bridging visa. Is this the case/ What exactly are the restrictions?

So many questions I know, but we really want to help her and provide her with the best options for making this all a reality.

Finally just remembered if she were to apply for an onshore cpv would she be able to stay here until it were granted and if so on what visa and under what conditions?

Many thanks in anticipation. :notworthy: