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My Mum lost her phone full of photos of her granddaughter in Melbourne outside a shopping center, at a huge car park. She does not use her mobile phone so much and had only the number of me (living in Europe), my brother and father (in Melbourne). The person that found it phoned my brother, he was at work and could not reply, then took HER phone and phoned me because she did not want to spend the credit of my mother's phone (my phone was off because it was night). Then again called my brother and told him that she will leave the phone at the information desk. I am sorry for the phone and what happened to you but please don't get dissappointed so easily, you cannot expect that every single man is nice.

Here is my situation. My husband is 42 and whenever we go ANYWHERE my MIL and FIL are doing their best to persuade him not to go. This year we were in Oz for a month only to visit my parents and she tried everything she could to divert my OH from going there. They would wait for him when he gets back from work in front of the house and persuade not to go. And they both did not speak to me since the moment we told them we were going. She then started to lie that she is very sick (and will die during that month and this will be the fault of her son!!!). They do not want to understand that this is our life, no, she keeps saying that he is HER SON. I was talking to my husband last year and we agreed to try to go to Oz permanently, but we have not much time left, I am 35, and now when we returned and have to work on it very hard, he seems to have lost interest. He loved Australia very much and he has an engineering profession but he is thinking of the reacton of his parents which would be tragical. They will probably warn him that they will disown him forever if he does so. They are very possessive, and keep talking around the clock how his duty is to take care of them now when they are old... They are in very good physical health by the way and have another son and his family living with them in the same house. But my OH is their "favourite" son. I mean really that they will blackmail him and they are capable of everything and I am so sad because I love him and we first agreed to go and now... He said that he had to think over and he needed a bit more time.

Hello, has anyone flew Qatar? Last time (a few years ago) I travelled to Oz with Emirates and now they do not have any seats available until mid February so I bought the tickets (still return tickets) with Qatar. I read somewhere that they are similar to Emirates but I would like to hear some personal experiences. I am travelling next week.

Thank you all for the welcome and best wishes. My parents live in Tullamarine, just a few minutes` walk from the airport. My brother has bought a house in Point Cook and will be moving soon. We would like to go to Melbourne as well but I do not mind if we go to some other city. But we have not even applied yet, so it`s a looooong process before us!

Happy New Year to everyone on this forum! I am new here and just about to start the immigration process, but first my husband and I will go to visit my parents in Melbourne in the end of January. This is the first site I visit every day when I turn on my computer. I hope you will all succeed and be in Oz soon. Best wishes to everyone!